I was still a little kid in the 1950s when I found out that my mother's father had produced a feature film based on the Book of Mormon back in 1931, at the dawn of the era of talking pictures.

With the title Corianton, the full-length feature was based on a play by Orestes U. Bean, which my grandfather, Lester Park, had seen as a boy in the Salt Lake Theatre.

The play had moved him greatly, and when he got into the film business it became his goal to make a full-length feature film that would affect audiences the way the play had affected him.

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