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Child Bride of Short Creek is a 1981 American made-for-television drama film written by Joyce Eliason, starring Christopher Atkins, Diane Lane, Conrad Bain, Helen Hunt and Dee Wallace. The film is a dramatization loosely based upon the 1953 Short Creek raid that had occurred in Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, United States ...
- Drama
Dec 7, 1981 · Child Bride of Short Creek: Directed by Robert Michael Lewis. With Christopher Atkins, Diane Lane, Conrad Bain, Kiel Martin. Partially based on the true events surrounding a rural religious cult in the American Midwest, and how the members' children suffered for their parents' fanaticism.
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- Drama
- Robert Michael Lewis
- 1981-12-07
Dec 31, 2014 · Partially based on the 1953 true events surrounding a rural religious cult in the American Midwest, and how the members' children suffered for their parents' fanaticism. In 1953, the small town of Short Creek became the target of an
- 96 min
Aug 5, 2016 · Partially based on the true events surrounding a rural religious cult in the American Midwest, and how the members' children suffered for their parents' fanaticism. ...more.
- 96 min
- 140.9K
- Pier Chillius
A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, with returning Korean war veteran Christopher Atkins' rebellion against his father (Conrad Bain) when learning that he plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl (Diane...
- Robert Michael Lewis
- Jacob Johnston
Dec 7, 1981 · This two-hour film, based on a story by Michael Fessier Jr., is a dramatization of an incident of the early 1950's, when the Arizona state police raided a tiny polygamous settlement in the...
Dec 7, 1981 · Originally made for television and based on a true story from the '50s, this film concerns a rural Arizona town that deals in polygamy. Specifically, a boy is shocked that his father (Christopher Atkins), a veteran of the Korean War, wishes to take a 15-year-old girl for another wife.
