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...school busses, even longer tank trucks, impressive six-wheelers. New Federals include a square, unstreamlined ¾-ton unit for city deliveries, others up to 20 tons. The radiators on the new Four Wheel Drive hang so far over the front-wheels they appear dangerously near nosing-over. Another giant, Mormon-Harrington, specializes in lumber, petroleum and construction hauling. The revitalized Reo runs from one-and-a-half-ton general-purpose trucks to 34-ton tractor-trailer combinations. Well streamlined, Reo pushed a knifelike hood ahead of the front wheels to achieve bigger loads on the same wheelbase...
Brigham Young-Frontiersman (20th Century-Fox) continues the biographical meanderings of Plutarchian Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck with a two-hour treatise on the two most critical years in the history of the Mormon Church. Beginning with a cruelly realistic, play-by-play account of the persecution of the Latter-Day Saints in Illinois, Producer Zanuck moves his Mormons across the western plains through a succession of bouts with cold and starvation; plants them by the Great Salt Lake for an arduous, hungry winter, a pitched battle with crickets, a final miraculous victory assisted by a flock of sea gulls which...
...welcher when it comes to touching tender spots, Zanuck tempted Mormon wrath by showing Brigham with four of his 27 wives. For publicity purposes the studio released several still pictures showing Young surrounded by a dozen Hollywood beauties representing his marital score at the date of the picture's action. Most conspicuous in the film is Mary Ann (Mary Astor), while frequently present is shapely, silent Clara (Jean Rogers). The two others lurk obscurely in the background...
Producer Zanuck's technical adviser was 80-year-old Mormon George D. Pyper, a former friend of Young, who watched from the sidelines during production. When the 60,000 fans-mostly Mormons-who jammed Salt Lake City for the premiere last month raised no cry of protest over Mormon mistreatment, Fox observers knew Adviser Pyper's salary had been well spent...
With the help of Darryl Zanuck's millions and Louis Bromfield's doubtful dramatic talent another grand American screen epic has been born. "Brigham Young--Frontiersman" deals with the Mormon migration to Utah, with hatred and persecution in the good old days. The story is told with much sympathy and technical skill, but bogs down and struggles forward as painfully as the pioneers themselves...