''Trapped by the Mormons'' (also released as ''The Mormon Peril'')
is a 1922
silent British
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
H. B. Parkinson and starring
Evelyn Brent
Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs; October 20, 1895 – June 4, 1975) was an American film and stage actress.
Early life
Brent was born in Tampa, Florida, and known as Betty. When she was age 10, her mother Eleanor (née. Warner) died, ...
.
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.
Cast
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Evelyn Brent
Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs; October 20, 1895 – June 4, 1975) was an American film and stage actress.
Early life
Brent was born in Tampa, Florida, and known as Betty. When she was age 10, her mother Eleanor (née. Warner) died, ...
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
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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
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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
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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
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Cecil Morton York as Mr. Prescott
See also
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Married to a Mormon
''Married to a Mormon'' is a 1922 silent British drama film directed by H. B. Parkinson and starring Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook and George Wynn. The film is anti-Mormon and involves the taking of young virginal English women to Utah to become ...
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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
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