Promises To Keep
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Noel Black
Robert Mitchum
Christopher Mitchum
Bentley Mitchum
Tess Harper
Claire Bloom
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Three generations of the Robert Mitchum family united for this project, initially called "Fathering," with the veteran actor playing a dying rancher who decides to visit the family he had deserted thirty years earlier. His son Christopher, and Christopher's son, Bentley (in his acting debut), play his fictional son and grandson, the older one contemptuous toward the man who had abandoned him as a boy, the younger one (the show's narrator) thrilled by his belated return. Filmed primarily in Malibu and Santa Barbara, near Robert Mitchum's real-life stomping grounds.
Director
Noel Black
Cast
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Robert Mitchum
Christopher Mitchum
Bentley Mitchum
Tess Harper
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Claire Bloom
Merritt Butrick
Jane Sibbett
Hugh Gillin
Peter Hobbs
Paul Mantee
Thomas Oglesby
Andy Romano
Richard Partlow
George Kee Cheung
Bobby Hoy
Michael Laskin
Eva Charney
Gil Combs
Clifford Happy
Jeremy Sunderland
Mark Thomas
Randy Oglesby
Rick Partlow
Crew
Barbara Amato
James Antunez
Dale Ashcraft
Jean Austin
Stephanie Austin-thaler
Mark Bacino
Peter L Bergquist
Kathleen Brodbeck
Martin X Catelens
Robin Clark
Robin Clark
Vincent Cresciman
David Dalzell
Dennis A Dalzell
Paul Delucca
Andree Duviler
Zoltan Elek
Penny Ellers
Allen Epstein
Jeff Gaffin
William Jay Gahert
Mary Ann Good
Jim Green
Sandra Harmon
Anne Hart
Frederic Hunter
Tom Kessenich
Aaron Khristeus
Charles T Knight
Michel Legrand
Carl Manoogian
Dirk Mcconthay
Robert A Papazian
Phil Penningroth
Joyce Robinson
Robert F. Shugrue
Robert F. Simon
Milton Sperling
Matthew Springman
Cynthi Stefenoni
Jimmy Veres
Tom Villano
James Walker
Fred Waugh
Wayne Williams
Earl Williman
Jeffrey Windrvet
Cliff Winger
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States October 15, 1985
Original title: "Fathering."