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The Green Promise

  • 19491949
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  • 1h 33m
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6.4/10
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Natalie Wood, Walter Brennan, Marguerite Chapman, and Robert Paige in The Green Promise (1949)
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Widowed Old Man Matthews, who has lived his entire life as a farmer, has moved his family of himself and his four young adult to adolescent offspring - Deborah, Phineas, Abigail and Susan - ... Read allWidowed Old Man Matthews, who has lived his entire life as a farmer, has moved his family of himself and his four young adult to adolescent offspring - Deborah, Phineas, Abigail and Susan - to a just purchased farm in Millwood, following the ecological demise of their last farm o... Read allWidowed Old Man Matthews, who has lived his entire life as a farmer, has moved his family of himself and his four young adult to adolescent offspring - Deborah, Phineas, Abigail and Susan - to a just purchased farm in Millwood, following the ecological demise of their last farm on which he was able to collect insurance. He has a "my way or the high way" mentality abou... Read all
IMDb RATING
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586
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    • William D. Russell
    • Monte Collins(original story)
  • Stars
    • Marguerite Chapman
    • Walter Brennan
    • Robert Paige
    • William D. Russell
    • Monte Collins(original story)
  • Stars
    • Marguerite Chapman
    • Walter Brennan
    • Robert Paige
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    • 23User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Natalie Wood, Marguerite Chapman, and Robert Paige in The Green Promise (1949)
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    Natalie Wood and Walter Brennan in The Green Promise (1949)
    Natalie Wood in The Green Promise (1949)
    Natalie Wood in The Green Promise (1949)
    Natalie Wood, Marguerite Chapman, and Robert Paige in The Green Promise (1949)
    Connie Marshall in The Green Promise (1949)
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    Marguerite Chapman
    Marguerite Chapman
    • Deborah Matthews
    Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan
    • Mr. Matthews
    Robert Paige
    Robert Paige
    • David Barkley
    Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood
    • Susan Matthews
    Ted Donaldson
    Ted Donaldson
    • Phineas Matthews
    Connie Marshall
    Connie Marshall
    • Abigail Matthews
    Robert Ellis
    Robert Ellis
    • Buzz Wexford
    Jeanne LaDuke
    • Jessie Wexford
    • (as Jeanne La Duke)
    Irving Bacon
    Irving Bacon
    • Julius Larkins
    Milburn Stone
    Milburn Stone
    • Reverend Jim Benton
    Geraldine Wall
    Geraldine Wall
    • Mrs. Wexford
    Sam Flint
    Sam Flint
    • Dr. Pomeroy
    • (uncredited)
    Martin Milner
    Martin Milner
    • Joe
    • (uncredited)
    Lee Phelps
    • Land Owner with Loggers
    • (uncredited)
    Dick Wessel
    Dick Wessel
    • Mr. Clairborne
    • (uncredited)
    Will Wright
    Will Wright
    • Mr. Grinstedt
    • (uncredited)
      • William D. Russell
      • Monte Collins(original story) (screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      There is one scene where a young Natalie Wood is supposed to run across a bridge. She was told that the bridge would collapse after she got to the other side, but there was an accident and the bridge collapsed while she was still on it. She broke her wrist and it never healed properly. She always wore a bracelet to hide the lump left behind.
    • Goofs
      When Susan is running home from school and encounters a bull, a moving shadow of a crew member is visible on the ground, lower left of the frame.
    • Connections
      Featured in Too Young to Die: Natalie Wood - Die Macht der Prophezeiung (2014)

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    6/10
    Natalie And Her Lambs
    The Green Promise is a commercial for the 4-H clubs which despite the ever shrinking number of family farms there are still enough kids growing up on same to provide a spring of new members. But this film is a time capsule which shows some of the problems of rural life around 1949. A lot of those same problems exist today because the things that Mother Nature can throw at you when you make a living from the land don't change at all.

    Walter Brennan plays a serious version of his later Grandpappy Amos McCoy role. He's the father of four children, the grownup Marguerite Chapman and youngsters Ted Donaldson, Connie Marshall and the youngest Natalie Wood. Brennan is old fashioned and stubborn and not willing to listen to advice about new agricultural methods. Especially when they come from smart alecky young county agent Robert Paige. Paige knows his stuff, but he's a bit too sure of himself to suit Brennan and Chapman in the romance department. Of course she comes around in every way.

    The star here is young Natalie Wood and she plays the part like a young Margaret O'Brien. In fact when I tuned the film on I wasn't sure I wasn't watching Margaret O'Brien, the only clue that puzzled me was that Ted Donaldson was too old be an older brother for O'Brien. Young Natalie is sweet and engaging and I defy anyone not to empathize with her concern for her young black lambs whom she is raising as her 4-H project.

    The kids from 4-H pitch in with helping hands (that is one of the four Hs after all) to save the farm from the elements and the stupidity of man which I won't go into. All in all they're wholesome All American kids and a real advertisement for the group.

    And The Green Promise is also an advertisement for the 4-H clubs in the USA. It's a nice family film without great production values and Natalie Wood is exceptional.
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    • Sep 27, 2009

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    • Release date
      • March 22, 1949 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Samuel Goldwyn Studios - 7200 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Glenn McCarthy Productions
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    • 1 hour 33 minutes
      • Black and White

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