The Avenging Angel is a 1995 American Western television film directed by Craig R. Baxley and coproduced by and starring Tom Berenger,[2] as well as James Coburn.
The movie is based on a book of the same name by Gary Stewart,[1] and features real life characters Brigham Young, Porter Rockwell, and Wild Bill Hickman.
The fictional main character Miles Utley is an orphan raised to be a Danite (also known as an "avenging angel") bodyguard tasked with protecting the interests of top leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (informally LDS or Mormon Church) in the newly colonized Utah Territory in the mid-late 1800s.
[1][2] Co-producer and main actor Berenger said the religious aspect of the story "is what I thought made it different than other Westerns.
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