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The Land of Promise est un film américain de genre Drame réalisé par Joseph Kaufman avec Billie Burke

The Land of Promise (1917)

The Land of Promise
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The Land of Promise is a 1917 silent American comedy drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Joseph Kaufman and starred Billie Burke and Thomas Meighan. The film is based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham, which also starred Burke on Broadway with Shelly Hull as her leading man.

The film was remade in 1926 by Paramount as The Canadian with Thomas Meighan reprising his role as Frank Taylor.

Synopsis

As described in a film magazine, when her employer dies, leaving her penniless, Nora Marsh (Burke) decides to make her home with her brother Edward (Johnston) in Canada. She cannot, however, get along with her sister-in-law Gertie (Alden) and life becomes a hardship. The hired man Frank Taylor (Meighan) owns a farm of his own, but a storm has destroyed his crops and forced him to work. Shortly after Nora's arrival he leaves for his farm. Nora hears a remark that he intends to get a woman to be his wife and housekeeper and she decides to take a chance. They get married and he takes her to his house, which she soon has cozy and homelike. Wild mustard seed infests Taylor's crops and destroy them. Nora has received some money from England is thinking of leaving Taylor. When she learns that he will have to be a hired man again, she decides to stay and give him the use of her money.

Acteurs

Billie Burke

(Nora Marsh)
Thomas Meighan

(Frank Taylor)
Mary Alden

(Gertie Marsh)
Margaret Seddon

(Miss Pringle)
Grace Van Studdiford

(Mrs. Wickham)
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