Mormon Literature Database - Riders of the Purple Sage

Riders of the Purple Sage
Production Company: Twentieth-Century Fox
Premiere Date: September 1, 1918


Genre:		Film
Production Type:		Non-Mormon Production
Content Types:		Minor Mormon Elements Narrative Film
Distribution Types:		Commercial Theaters

Summary:
Texas ranger Jim Lassiter falls in love with a Mormon girl and tries to stop the kidnapping of women for polygamy.

Annotations:
See Mormon Film: Key Films of the First Wave

Additional details at Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009552/

Medium: Silent
Country: USA

Adapted From :
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey New York, London: Harper, 1912	Novel

Adapted To:
Riders of the Purple Sage Directed by Charles Haid	Film

Continued in the sequel:
The Rainbow Trail	Film