La grande missione
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Joseph Smith, il fondatore della setta dei Mormoni, è stato linciato dai Presbiterani dell'Illinois che costringono i suoi discepoli, guidati da Brigham Young, a lasciare quella terra. Inizia così il lungo viaggio verso Ovest dei pellegrini, in cerca di una sede sicura. Alle difficoltà dell'ambiente si aggiungono le insidie di un falso predicatore che vorrebbe far deviare a proprio vantaggio la carovana.
(1940) Storia , Romance , Western
Data rilascio : 27/09/1940
regia di Henry Hathaway
Cast
Tyrone Power - Jonathan Kent
Linda Darnell - Zina Webb - The Outsider
Dean Jagger - Brigham Young
Brian Donlevy - Angus Duncan
Jane Darwell - Eliza Kent
John Carradine - Porter Rockwell
Mary Astor - Mary Ann Young
Vincent Price - Joseph Smith
Jean Rogers - Clara Young
Ann E. Todd - Mary Kent
Willard Robertson - Heber Kimball
Moroni Olsen - Doc Richards
Marc Lawrence - Prosecutor
Stanley Andrews - Hyrum Smith
Frank M. Thomas - Hubert Crum
Fuzzy Knight - Pete
Dickie Jones - Henry Kent
Selmer Jackson - Caleb Kent
Frederick Burton - Mr. Webb
Arthur Aylesworth - Jim Bridger
Chief John Big Tree - Big Elk
Davison Clark - Johnson
Claire Du Brey - Emma Smith
Tully Marshall - Judge
Dick Rich - 1st Mob Leader
Edwin Maxwell - 2nd Mob Leader
Ralph Dunn - Jury Foreman
Edmund MacDonald - Elder
George Melford - John Taylor
Russell Simpson - U.S. Army Major
Paul E. Burns - Man with California Gold News
Cliff Clark - Dissenter
Edmund Elton - Undetermined Role
Jody Gilbert - Stout Woman Who Can't Swim
William Haade - Skeptic
Herbert Heywood - Jokester at Chronicle Notice
Cammilla Johnson - Little Girl
Cullen Johnson - Boy in Covered Wagon
Payne B. Johnson - Boy in Covered Wagon
David Kirkland - Elder
Bob Kortman - Agitator
Paul Kruger - Raider
Ann Kunde - Mormon
Frank LaRue - Sheriff
Charles Frederick Lindsley - Trailer Narrator (voice)
Tom London - Raider
Murdock MacQuarrie - Undetermined Role
Louis Mason - Man Laughing at Joke
Charles Middleton - Mob Member
Frank Mills - Man in Newspaper Office / Agitator
Philip Morris - Mob Member
Imboden Parrish - Minor Role
Ruth Robinson - Discouraged Mormon
John Roy - Minor Role
Frank Shannon - Second Man with California Gold News
Lee Shumway - Mob Member
Harry Tyler - Undetermined Role
Eddy Waller - an with California Gold News
Cecil Weston - Minor Role
Blackie Whiteford - Court Spectator
Hank Worden - Mormon Cheering Porter