The Canadian (film)
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Directed by | William Beaudine |
Written by | Arthur Stringer (adaptation, scenario) Julian Johnson (intertitles) |
Based on | The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
Starring | Thomas Meighan |
Cinematography | Alvin Wyckoff |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes; 8 reels (7,753 feet) |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Canadian is an extant 1926 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a 1913 Broadway play, The Land of Promise, by W. Somerset Maugham. The film was directed by William Beaudine and starred Thomas Meighan. Meighan had costarred with Billie Burke in a 1917 silent film based on the same story, The Land of Promise. In both films he plays the same part. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress.[1][2][3]
Plot[]
A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes.
Cast[]
- Thomas Meighan as Frank Taylor
- Mona Palma as Nora
- Wyndham Standing as Ed Marsh
- Dale Fuller as Gertie
- Charles Winninger as Pop Tyson
- Billy Butts as Buck Golder
References[]
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Canadian at silentera.com
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c.1978
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- 1926 films
- American silent feature films
- American films
- Films directed by William Beaudine
- American films based on plays
- Paramount Pictures films
- Famous Players-Lasky films
- 1926 romantic drama films
- American romantic drama films
- American black-and-white films
- Silent romantic drama film stubs