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The Land of Promise
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Joseph Kaufman

Cast: Billie Burke [Nora Marsh], Thomas Meighan [Frank Taylor], Helen T. Tracy [Miss Eunice Wickham], J.W. Johnson [Edward Marsh], Mary Alden [Gertie Marsh], Margaret Seddon [Miss Pringle], Walter McEwen [James Wickham], Grace Studeford [Dorothy Wickham, his wife], John Raymond [Reginald Hornby]

Famous Players Film Company production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Charles E. Whittaker, from the play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham. Cinematography by William Marshall. Presented by arrangement with Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. / © 20 November 1917 by Famous Players Film Company [LP11742]. Released 10 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as The Canadian (1926).

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 27 November 2010.

References: Website-AFI.