In this family drama, the life of a woman and her son are severely disrupted when her estranged husband, who abandoned them thirty years before, returns., Robert Mitchum stars as Jack Palmer, an aging cowboy with a terrifying secret who returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago in the impassioned, emotional drama Promises To Keep., Conflicts surface when an ailing patriarch (Robert Mitchum) returns home after 30 years. Tom: Christopher Mitchum. Johnny: Bentley C. Mitchum. Sally: Claire Bloom. Gwen: Tess Harper. Reg: Merritt Butrick. Libby: Jane Sibbett. Directed by Noel Black.