Trapped by the Mormons
About Trapped by the Mormons
H. B. Parkinson's drama, also issued as The Mormon Peril, shows Mormon elders recruiting young Englishwomen as wives for Utah. Evelyn Brent plays Nora Prescott. Louis Willoughby plays Isoldi Keene, and Ward McAllister and Olaf Hytten play Elders Kayler and Marz.
Cast & crew
More about Trapped by the Mormons
H. B. Parkinson directed and produced. Winifred Graham adapted her 1911 novel The Love Story of a Mormon. Frank Miller is also credited on the screenplay. T. R. Thumwood was the cinematographer. The film opened in March 1922.
Themes
Background
Graham's novel and the film belong to her public campaign, from 1908 to 1924, against Mormon missionaries in the United Kingdom.
Making
Parkinson shot Graham's anti-Mormon novel as a feature-length melodrama rather than a short lecture film.
Look
T. R. Thumwood was the cinematographer.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
Prints survive in several archives.
Notes
- Evelyn Brent plays Nora Prescott.
- Louis Willoughby plays Isoldi Keene.
- Ward McAllister is Elder Kayler and Olaf Hytten is Elder Marz.
- Olive Sloane plays Sadie Keane, George Wynn plays Jim Foster, and Cecil Morton York plays Mr. Prescott.
- Graham had been campaigning since 1908 to keep Mormon missionaries out of Britain.
- An alternate title is The Mormon Peril.
- A video edition has been issued from a surviving print.
Scenes
- Nora Prescott is drawn toward a marriage in Utah by the elders in the story.
Influenced by
- Winifred Graham's novel The Love Story of a Mormon (1911)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-trapped-by-the-mormons)