One Great Movie hits hard
While this movie is written as fictional, it has so much historical accuracies that except for a few of the names being made up, this could easily be categorized as Historical and factual. Tom Berenger is OUTSTANDING as Miles Utley, the Avenging Angel. James Coburn was also up to the task in what was one of his last films. He portrayed the TRUE to life Avenging Angel, Porter Rockwell. Violence in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' early history is all too often overlooked or ignored completely in our history books. But, the Mormons(a nickname placed upon the members of the LDS Church) were treated horribly for the first 25 years after their founding. Porter Rockwell was one of the few people of any faith or persuasion that could and did give his all to protect the Members of his Faith. Berenger portrays an apprentice of Rockwell's but in reality, the movie is really about the Young Orin Porter Rockwell, the original and most love and feared Avenging Angel. I can not...
The Avenging Angel
I watched The Avenging Angel when it was on TV and taped it. I watched it many times over the years and then have searched for it on DVD for several years now and was so happy to finally find it on DVD. Tom Berenger was great as the protector of Brigham Young in this movie. There was so much action in it that it keeps you interested all the way through. The quality of the DVD is great since it came from a TV movie. I would recommend this move to anyone that loves movies with Tom Berenger and Charlton Heston(playing Brigham Young).
Hurrah! Finally available on DVD
I watched this (and taped it) when it was first broadcast on TNT (boy, they used to make great movies . . . why don't they anymore?). Over the years, we watched it over and over again, and never got tired of it. The tape finally gave out a few years ago, and we thought it was gone forever. But now Amazon makes DVDs of it on demand. THANK YOU!!! By the way . . . it's a great movie. Tom Berenger & James Coburn chew the scenery, and Charleton Heston is perfect as Brigham Young. Weakest part of the movie is Kevin Tighe (yes, Roy DeSoto of Emergency!), whose overacting as the villain is the only thing that detracts from the film.
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