Keeping The Promise
– A colonial family seeks a better life in Maine's wilderness in this powerful adventure. When William..
A colonial family seeks a better life in Maine's wilderness in this powerful adventure. When William Hallowell leaves behind 13-year-old son Matt to safeguard their claim, the boy relies on his new friendship with the Penobscot Indians for survival.
05 Jan 1997
English
Sheldon Larry
Gerald Di Pego (teleplay by), Stacey Rayn (script coordinator), Elizabeth George Speare (based on a book by)
Keith Carradine, Annette O'Toole, Brendan Fletcher, Gordon Tootoosis
Immigrated carpenter William 'Will' Hallowell hopes to make his family wealthy, after a fire ruined them in Springfield, Massachusettes, by moving to a claim in Maine territory. In order not to loose it, his son and apprentice Matt (13), a greenhorn city boy, must stay there while Will fetches spoiled wife and daughters, but an epidemic wrecks that plan. Matt is robbed by white neighbor Ben Loomis, but saved by old Penobscott Indian Sakniss, who demands in exchange mat teaches his his grandson Attean to read. From suspicion bordering on blind hatred, loyal friendship springs, yet the winter is unforgiving.
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