Good film,depicting the odyssey of the Mormons,walking across the desert to find the promised land.It mixes real events with fiction with taste:for instance ,in the first third,the two stars (Tyrone Power's and gorgeous Linda Darnell' s presence on the screen does not exceed five or ten minutes).Darnell portrays a Christian ( "I have already got my religion;I'm a Christian" "but we are Christians too")who becomes part of the journey by chance.
References to the Bible , Mosis , pharaoh's tribe and the promised land (but many of us will die along the way ) abound.Even the Golden Calf is present :it takes the shape of California,with its gold nuggets as big as oranges ("I'd rather have an orange "says Linda wisely)
Great scenes:Joseph Smith before the court,a travesty of a trial;the Mormons in front of the frozen lake;the crickets in the fields;the coming of the seagulls.
People often forget it,but Henry Hathaway was an efficient director:at the time,he had already made two classics :"Peter Ibbetson" and "lives of a Bengal lancer".
References to the Bible , Mosis , pharaoh's tribe and the promised land (but many of us will die along the way ) abound.Even the Golden Calf is present :it takes the shape of California,with its gold nuggets as big as oranges ("I'd rather have an orange "says Linda wisely)
Great scenes:Joseph Smith before the court,a travesty of a trial;the Mormons in front of the frozen lake;the crickets in the fields;the coming of the seagulls.
People often forget it,but Henry Hathaway was an efficient director:at the time,he had already made two classics :"Peter Ibbetson" and "lives of a Bengal lancer".