Don't let the title fool you, this isn't some action-packed thriller. In fact, SAVAGE JOURNEY is a rather dull account of the origin of Mormonism. Richard Moll plays Joseph Smith, who is tarred, feathered, arrested, and eventually lynched. There's pretty much one disaster after another for the early Mormons.
Brigham Young takes over for Smith, encountering plenty of tragedies himself, including a swarm of locusts and gaggles of backward yahoos with murder on their tiny minds.
If this movie had been as interesting or exciting as the actual history, it might have been more than a G-rated sleeping aid...