Billie Burke
Nora Marsh
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The Land of Promise: Directed by Juda Leman. With David Ross. Portraying Zionist settlers' accomplishments, this part-documentary, part-travelogue shows 1930s Palestine as opportunity for fulfilling a dream. Through evocative visuals, it encourages settlement and investment in the "Jewish homeland."
- (26)
- Documentary
- Juda Leman
- 1935-11-20
The Land of Promise: Directed by Joseph Kaufman. With Billie Burke, Thomas Meighan, Helen Tracy, Jack W. Johnston. Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
- (14)
- Drama
- Joseph Kaufman
- 1917-12-09
Country. United States. Language. Silent (English intertitles) The Land of Promise is a 1917 American silent 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.
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The Land of Promise explores the regeneration of life in the country, aka “the land of peace between religions”; the two big cities – Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; the local, active Jewish communities, and the clash of the old vs. the new. You may also be interested in ...
Land of Promise: Directed by Paul Rotha. With Frederick Allen, Elizabeth Cowell, Henry Hallatt, Herbert Lomas. Described as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing houses as they were, houses as they are and houses as they might be.
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Synopsis by Janiss Garza. W. Somerset Maugham's play was toned down to make this Billie Burke vehicle. An English girl, Nora Marsh (Burke), goes to Manitoba, Canada, to live on a farm run by her brother Edward (J.W. Johnson). But Nora's British reserve angers Edward's hard-working wife Gertie (Mary Alden), because she mistakes it for snobbery.
