Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
This is a fictional love story with the 1856 Handcart Pioneers as the backdrop. Sam Hunter, falls for a Mormon Pioneer woman, Abigail, as she is moving west.
Rowe McDonald is a headstrong missionary who has life after his mission all figured out. When a fatal car crash interrupts his plans, he is given sixty days to return to life and finish his work.
Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.
Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother.
A portrayal of the early Latter-day Saints' joys, sacrifices, hopes, and trials; their epic journey to the Salt Lake Valley; and their legacy of faith in Jesus Christ.
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Brigham Young Porter Clips
From the film "Brigham Young: Frontiersman (1940). With a big-budget; and an A-list cast consisting of Vincent Price (as Joseph Smith) Dean Jagger (as ...
Joseph Smith meets Brigham Young - Brigham Young (1940)
Scene from the 1940 Fox Production of Brigham Young featuring Vincent Price as Jospeh Smith.
The Fantastic Films of Vincent Price #6 - Brigham Young/Hudson's Bay
This episode Dr. Gangrene takes a look at 2 of Vincent's films both historical dramas: Brigham Young (1940) and Hudson's Bay (1941). About this series: Dr.
Brigham Young inviting Eva back to the fold
Brigham Young in Hell on Wheels meets Eva and is told she is "still Mormon. Its never too late to return to the fold". Eva is based off the real Olive Oatman that ...
Brigham Young tells his woman
brigham young in the 19th wife telling it like it is is!
The Battle of Brigham Young
This is a short trailer for a movie that was never made. It is about the rare known true story of Brigham Young's struggle with a very personal foe.
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A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang".
The coming of the pioneer settlers in 1840, the making of their first homes in the wilderness, the gold rushes, the Maori wars, the stage coaches, and the frontier towns.
Grace Peterson works in department stores "Tutto per Tutti", along with many other young people. His employment contract entitling them to live in a boarding house built specifically for them by the company but on the other hand, forbid them not fall in love or marry under threat of dismissal.
Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands and shave.
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake.
Stone is buying cattle cheap in Mexico, bringing them across the border without paying duty, changing the brands, and then selling them at a big profit.