title: The Sowers
text: # The Sowers
  
  The Sowers is a surviving 1916 silent film drama produced by Jesse Lasky, released through Paramount Pictures and directed by William C. deMille. The feature stars Blanche Sweet and Thomas Meighan and is based on the 1896 novel The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman. It is preserved in the Library of Congress collections.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Blanche Sweet - Karin Dolokhof
  * Thomas Meighan - Prince Paul Alexis
  * Mabel Van Buren - Princess Tanya
  * Ernest Joy - Count Egor Strannik
  * Theodore Roberts - Boris Dolokhof
  * Horace B. Carpenter - Chief of Secret Police
  * Raymond Hatton - The Peddler
  * Harold Howard - The Tramp
  