The only thing I could not figure out watching Child Bride Of Short Creek is why
did Conrad Bain let Christopher Atkins go to war and return from Korea? Just
being exposed to a wider world out there would have guaranteed trouble. Trouble being someone out there who knew that what the Prophet said was not
necessarily so even if it's his own son. Or did Atkins just want to get away himself?
In any event Atkins and Bain belong to a breakaway group of Mormons who are still polygamists. Bain is the leader and the Prophet does have perks in the office. Like being polygamous and allowing same for some of your buds and having the choice of the young girls being raised by this frightening group of inbreds.
For his fourth wife Bain has chosen Diane Lane and she's someone Atkins kind of likes. But the Prophet has spoken, even as law enforcement is starting to look at this isolated place and its practices.
Made right on the heels of Christopher Atkins's stunning debut in The Blue Lagoon, it's a nice ensemble cast that delivers here. Conrad Bain is far from the Dad in Different Strokes, he's one frightening self righteous dude who maintains his hold on the group through ignorance and isolation.
My favorite scene however is with Atkins and his mother Joan Shawlee the Prophet's first wife. Shawlee who made a career of playing brassy comic dames, but she's anything but that. She's playing a frightening caricature of a woman who knows nothing else but the ways of her breakaway Mormon world.
Interestingly enough I'm guessing because of law suits the name Latter Day Saints (LDS) or Mormon is never used. But we know who these folks are.
This is a really good made for TV film about a frightening group of people.
In any event Atkins and Bain belong to a breakaway group of Mormons who are still polygamists. Bain is the leader and the Prophet does have perks in the office. Like being polygamous and allowing same for some of your buds and having the choice of the young girls being raised by this frightening group of inbreds.
For his fourth wife Bain has chosen Diane Lane and she's someone Atkins kind of likes. But the Prophet has spoken, even as law enforcement is starting to look at this isolated place and its practices.
Made right on the heels of Christopher Atkins's stunning debut in The Blue Lagoon, it's a nice ensemble cast that delivers here. Conrad Bain is far from the Dad in Different Strokes, he's one frightening self righteous dude who maintains his hold on the group through ignorance and isolation.
My favorite scene however is with Atkins and his mother Joan Shawlee the Prophet's first wife. Shawlee who made a career of playing brassy comic dames, but she's anything but that. She's playing a frightening caricature of a woman who knows nothing else but the ways of her breakaway Mormon world.
Interestingly enough I'm guessing because of law suits the name Latter Day Saints (LDS) or Mormon is never used. But we know who these folks are.
This is a really good made for TV film about a frightening group of people.