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The Great Brain

  • R. A. M. Bickerton: Producer
  • John Dennis Fitzgerald: Story
  • Reed Smoot: Cinematographer
Made primarily by Church members with help from the BYU Motion Picture Studio. Based on John Fitzgerald’s books, it is set in 1900 southern Utah, but the Fitzgerald family is Catholic (the real mother was LDS).
  • Additional details at Internet Movie Database
June 1978
USA
English
Osmond Studios
Mormon Contributor(s)
Narrative Film; No Obvious Mormon Elements
Commercial Theaters; Commercial Video (VHS/DVD)
Feature

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