The Promise (1979 film)

The Promise
1990s VHS cover
Directed byGilbert Cates
Written byGarry Michael White (screenplay)
Fred Weintraub
Paul Heller (source story)
Danielle Steel (novel conversion)
Produced byFred Weintraub
Paul Heller
StarringKathleen Quinlan
Stephen Collins
Beatrice Straight
Laurence Luckinbill
William Prince
Bibi Besch
Michael O'Hare
CinematographyRalph Woolsey
Edited byPeter E. Berger
Music byDavid Shire
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • March 8, 1979 (1979-03-08)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States

The Promise is a 1979 American romantic drama film released by Universal Pictures which starred Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins, and Beatrice Straight. It was directed by Gilbert Cates and produced by Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller. Weintraub and Heller also wrote the source story, which Garry Michael White dramatized; the resultant film was novelized by Danielle Steel.[1] It was remade in India as the Hindi film Yeh Vaada Raha (1982).[2]

  1. ^ Deming, Mark. "The Promise". AllMovie. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  2. ^ Jain, Madhu The Kapoors: The First Family of Indian Cinema. Viking, Penguin Books India (2005), p. 284