The Green Promise: Digitally Mastered & Restored In HD (DVD)

A Heart-Warming Classic that Portrays One Family's Struggle to Make Their Farm a Success! A heart-warming, thoughtful drama, produced by RKO Pictures, which portrays the struggles and hard work of farm life. The title refers to a scene where the local preacher (Milburn Stone) gives a sermon on a story from the Book of Exodus of God's 'green promise' to lead Moses into a land of milk and honey. The preacher reminds his congregation that the fulfillment of the promise requires faith, difficult journeys, and open-mindedness.Walter Brennan plays widowed 'Old Man' Matthews, a stubborn and domineering farmer, who has ruined one farm by his ignorance, moves his family... a son and three daughters, to a just-purchased farm. His 'my way or the highway' attitude, soon puts him at odds against his family and new neighbors, especially about how to run a farm.David Barkley (Robert Paige), the local agricultural county agent, offers sound, and proven advice to Matthews about running the farm, but al