Review of A Mormon Maid

I was delighted to find that this fascinating Robert Z. Leonard movie is now available on a good Grapevine DVD. Admittedly, the director was hampered by the fact that the star was his wife, Mae Murray, who loved to overact and was not a person to take direction at all well. But excluding Mrs. Leonard's overwrought contribution as Dora Hogue, it's a well-made, big-budget, anti-Mormon tract featuring a wonderfully sinister performance from Noah Beery as Darius Burr, plus great acting from Richard Cummings as Burr's puppet, Hobart Bosworth as John Hogue and a young Frank Borzage as the hero, Tom Rigdon. A fortune was spent on sinister costumes and one wonders how true-to-life all the anti-Mormon propaganda in this film is.