A Mormon Maid
Overview
This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.
Release date
21/04/1917
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Original Soundtrack
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Dream #2
Keechaka Vadham
The Mistletoe Bough
Not So Long Ago
The Polygamous Wazzou
The Last Cartridge, An Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India
Evening Clothes
Weihnachtsglocken 1914
The Making of a Man
The Living Dead
The Guardian of Camargue
The Béarnaise Girl
Moses of the Mill
Fire at the Mine
You'll Go Away, Youth
Destiny
Moses Saved From the Waters
The Martyrdom of Saint Etienne
The Death of Saul
The Judgment of Solomon