Nora (Evelyn Brent) is set to be married to Jim Foster (George Wynn)
and couldn't be happier ... when she meets Isoldi Keene (Louis
Willoughby), a Mormon missionary who has come to England from Utah to
colelct a few women and take them back with him. Soon enough, Isoldi has
mesmerized Nora into submission, and she agrees to not only make
propaganda fro the Mormon cause in her bookclub, but also to break off her
engagement with Jim and marry Isoldi ... and soon enough, the two are off
to London, where Isoldi introduces Nora to his friends - all Mormon
operatives it turns out - and to his sister Sadie (Olive Sloane).
Hiowever, Jim foster is not one likely to give up on the love of his
life, and soon enough he has joined forces with detective Fairfax, who
agrees to help him get Nora out of the Mormons' clutches. Nora only
gradually realizes what she has gotten herself into when she learns that
Sadie is actually not Isoldi's sister but his wife (remember, among
Mormons, polygamy is allowed), and Sadie soon has a fit of jealousy and
is therefore tied up by Isoldi and his men, who threaten to do the same to
Nora if she doesn't play along ... but by that time, Jim and Fairfax have
already closed in on them and in the end, with the help of the police
storm the Mormons' headquarters - and after a big brawl, Jim and Nora are
re-united.
Orignially produced as a piece of anti-Mormon propaganda (which was big
in the UK in the early 1920's), the film, seen nowadays, doesn't really
strike fear of the Mormons but scores high in the so-bad-it's-good-scale -
in other words, what was originally intended as a serious propaganda
effort can nowadays be considered as high camp and unintentional fun.
Actually, the film is now regarded as so ridiculous that the Mormon Church
actually helped in re-releasing it in 2006.
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