Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music..

Picture, if you dare, a London where every gas-lamp halo quivers like a guilty conscience. Into this gaslit anxiety saunters Trapped by the Mormons—a 1922 British silent that barges into polite parlors waving the severed tongue of religious paranoia. The film is less narrative than fever-chart: a red-hot thermometer ...

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" Picture, if you dare, a London where every gas-lamp halo quivers like a guilty conscience. Into this gaslit anxiety saunters Trapped by the Mormons—a 1922 British silent that barges into polite parlors waving the severed tongue of religious paranoia. The film is less narrative than fever-chart: a red-hot thermometer jammed beneath the corset of post-WWI Britain, measuring how easily xenophobia can be rebranded as moral panic. The plot, skeletal yet rabid, pilfers Winifred Graham’s sensational..."

Olive Sloane
Winifred Graham, Frank Miller
United Kingdom

1934 · IMDb 6.8


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