The Green Promise

At the centre of the film is a farmer. The man is raising his children alone. He is known as a stubborn sort. He does not budge from what he thinks. A suitor turns up for his eldest daughter. The father reacts harshly to it. He very nearly brings the house down. But then there is an accident. The man is injured and takes to his bed. After that he cannot run the farm. The responsibility passes to his eldest daughter. She begins to keep the place going. The father has to look again at his position. Marguerite Chapman and Walter Brennan take the leads, with Natalie Wood also in the cast, in William D. Russell’s American film of 1949.