September Dawn
Starpulse (via) reports that Dean Cain, Jon Voight and Terence Stamp are set to upset Mormons across America by revisiting the religion’s darkest day in a controversial new film.
September Dawn recalls the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 when a group of Mormons, disguised as Paiute Indians, slaughtered all but 17 small children on a wagon train on its way to California.
One man, the adopted son of Mormon leader Brigham Young, was eventually executed for the crime - 20 years later.
The film is expected to be released in May and is seen as being controversial because it presents a point of view - widely held by descendants of the massacre, but hotly contested by the Mormons - that Brigham Young had complicity in the massacre.
Voight is set to play a Mormon leader with Stamp playing Brigham Young. Lolita Davidovich also stars.
Friday 26 Jan 2007 | Paul | New and Upcoming Films
I can’t Wait to see this film!!! I have heard it is extremely POWERFUL!!!!!!!
If the movie is anything like the trailer, it’s bound to be very powerful. The Mountain Meadows Massacre was the ‘Crime of the Century’. Then it was blamed entirely on the Indians and then it was covered up. I hope this movie helps bring it back out into the open where it can finally achieve the historical significance it deserves.