The Canadian | |
Director: | William Beaudine |
Producer: | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
Starring: | Thomas Meighan |
Cinematography: | Alvin Wyckoff |
Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
Runtime: | 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]
A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes.