LDS prophet Brigham Young on screen: Lots of darkness and one ‘bright ray’ of sunlight

From “A Mormon Maid” to “American Primeval,” the pioneer church leader has been shown as a master manipulator, a film historian says, except in a classic 1940 Western.

(20th Century Fox) Dean Jagger played Brigham Young in the 1940 Western melodrama "Brigham Young" and later converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.