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The trek portrayed in the movie actually took place around 30 years earlier. They are loosely based on a group of renigade mormons that existed for a short time while the mormons were living northern missouri in the late 1830s. The avenging angel tv movie 1995 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. I waited for a decade and a bit to finally see this movie come out on dvd. Tom berenger, charlton heston and james coburn star in this exciting western adventure which traces the troubled uta. The avenging angel was a protegee of porter rockwell in the movie but, the character that tom beringer plays was built around the real porter rockwell.
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