Talk:Child Bride of Short Creek

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Child Bride of Short Creek NBC-TV MOW
"Child Bride of Short Creek" produced by Paul Monash and Laurence Schiller, directed by Robert Michael Lewis, aired on NBC TV as a movie of the week on December 7, 1981. The Producers, Director, and Production Designer Hub Braden scouted the Southern St. George, Utah area in the late Spring of 1981, looking specifically at an abandoned small town East of Hurricane, Utah. The sight had been previously used for a film location by "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" by Paramount Pictures. Laurence Schiller had knowledge of the location and took his team to Utah for a preliminary survey. Schiller had developed the film based on fact; a State raid of the 1953 Polygamist community-town "Short Creek" located on the Utah and Arizona border near the three corner states of Arizon, New Mexico and Utah. Currently the town of Hilldale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona - (both sharing the State Line and Sheriffs) are what "Short Creek" was named in 1953. An effort to break up the multiple marriage of women and child brides with one male occurred when the men (and older marriage age males) we're put in a prison barbed-wire stockade enclosure, outside of Phoenix, and held for two years. The families of women, brides and children, remained in Short Creek waiting for their husbands release. After rejoining their multiple wives and children in 1955, life continued as previously practiced. Neither Utah State, the Federal Government, nor the Mormon Church have been able to end the practice of child brides and polygamy. These polygamist towns (camp) are South of the film's location sight, approximately 40 miles. These polygamist families can be seen in St George, today, when they "come to town" for shopping, dining and attending social activities - usually a dominant male with two, or more "sister wives," plus a string of siblings! The young sons/males are sent from their family unit, travelling outside their home area to find work; returning their income for the family support. Husbands, the leaders of the community, do not want young male competition interfering with their taking another child bride!. The sight of the film, a literal Ghost Town had been flooded and nearly washed away in the '40-50's. Few buildings remain, including a Mormon Stake Church, couple of houses, barns and farm buildings. The "Butch Cassidy" movie house erected for that film is located at the main intersection of the town's main road which parallels a shallow creek-river with fresh running water. This town is within the State Park jurisdiction. Interestingly, the "Butch Cassidy house" blends in with the other buildings. Scavengers and tourists have stripped the sight leaving very little. Braden and his Construction Coordinator Jerry Esposito, situated their production base in the only motel in Hurricane. They established a "Short Creek Productions" checking account, drawing upon the account for construction materials, paint, and related expenses. First week of the six week prep required Esposito to interview at the St George Unemployment Office for carpenters, laborers, amd a painter. Then, Esposito had to start training his crew how to build for a movie! The Location buildings required restoration, adding fences, additional farm buildings. The main road from the town of Hurricane was about 25 miles to a bridge cross-over, at the creek; switching back on the dirt road returning to the ghost town was another eight  miles. The filming cast and crew were all based in St. George's motel row. To shorten the company's travel distance time, Esposito's construction crew constructed a wooden plank foot bridge over the creek's flowing river bed, which allowed for vehicles parking adjacent the fabricated bridge in the road parking area. The cast and crew walked into the film's location. Catering and Camera equipment vehicles travelled the long way around to the town's filming sight. Esposito's unemployment interviews turned out a miracle when a Hollywood Studio Painter, who had left the "biz" showed up upon hearing about the project. For Braden, he didn't have to conduct painting classes! And the painter had his own tools, brushes, spray equipment, and he knew what "patina, dusting, aging" - all studio language, translating into describing studio paint terminology. The Set Decorator, Bruce Kay, and Property Master, Charles Nixon, were based in the Hurricane motel, and picked up their crews from local citizens. Braden and Esposito scouted the Hurricane town for "outhouses" offering $25 to property owners willing to release their old out sheds. They snagged four of the sheds in town, with the "hero outhouse" having been from the homeowner with ancestral ties to the famous director Cecil B. DeMille; thereafter this hero set prop became known as the "DeMille Shack!". Braden and Esposito made contact with Hurricane's Sheriff, Sheriff Glenwood Humpfries, alerting him and his office of the intended film production. Of course Sheriff Humpfries already knew about the project! He became an important liaison between the area and the film production company. Rumor spread that the Polygamists were planning a hostile raid on the location. Sheriff Humpfries checked gossip and maintained a constant roving presence between in town activities and at the filming location preventing any possible disruption. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.103.231.58 (talk) 21:57, 9 August 2012 (UTC)