The Wives of the Prophet is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by James A. Fitzgerald and starring Orville Caldwell, Alice Lake, and Violet Mersereau.
[1] As described in a film magazine review,[2] a religious sect in the Tennessee mountains expect the arrival of a prophet for whom five young women have been selected to be his wives.
Howard, a young lawyer, accidentally witnesses their annual ritual, makes a sketch of Judith, one of the designated five young women, which is then reproduced as a tattoo on his chest.
He is declared by the elders to be the Prophet and united to Judith and the other four women in a ritual in a huge cave.
Later, after avoiding moonshiners and their whiskey still and other adventures, he escapes to the outside world with Judith.