The Land of Promise
The Land of Promise is a 1917 silent American comedy drama film produced by Famous PlayersLasky 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.
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 sisterinlaw 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 Noras 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 Taylors 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.The House That Shadows Built 1931 promotional film by Paramount, contains an unidentified Billie Burke clip almost certainly from The Land of Promise. Other than this brief clip, this is considered a lost film. ........
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