''Trapped by the Mormons'' (also released as ''The Mormon Peril'') is a 1922 silent British

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directed by H. B. Parkinson and starring

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. This anti-Mormon film involves the taking of young virginal English women to Utah to become wives. The film survives in several archives, and a copy of the film has been released on video.

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as Nora Prescott *

Louis Willoughby Louis Willoughby (10 July 1876 – 12 September 1968) was an English actor of the silent era. Born in England, he was married to artist Vera Willoughby and the father of artist Althea Willoughby. He lived his final years in the United Stat ...

as Isoldi Keene *

Ward McAllister Samuel Ward McAllister (December 28, 1827 – January 31, 1895) was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of late 19th-century America. He was widely accepted as the authority as to which families could be classified as the cream o ...

as Elder Kayler *

Olaf Hytten Olaf Hytten (3 March 1888 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1955. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack, while sitting in his car ...

as Elder Marz *

Olive Sloane Olive Sloane (16 December 1896 – 28 June 1963) was an English actress whose film career spanned over 40 years from the silent era through to her death. Sloane's career trajectory was unusual in that for most of her professional life she was e ...

as Sadie Keane * George Wynn as Jim Foster * Cecil Morton York as Mr. Prescott

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* 1922 films 1922 drama films British drama films British silent feature films British black-and-white films Criticism of Mormonism Films directed by H. B. Parkinson Films about Mormonism Mormonism in fiction Works about polygamy in Mormonism 1920s British films Silent drama films {{silent-drama-film-stub

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