The Farmer’s Wife
This is an article for the 1928 film. There have been two other films of the same name, The Farmer’s Wife (1941 film) and The Farmer’s Wife (1998 film).
The Farmer’s Wife
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
Eliot Stannard
Starring
Jameson Thomas
Lillian Hall-Davis
Gordon Harker
Cinematography
Jack E. Cox
Distributed by
Wardour Films Super Features
Release date(s)
March 1928
Running time
129 min.
Language
Silent film
English intertitles
IMDb profile
The Farmer’s Wife is a silent film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released in 1928.
It was based on a play of the same name by British novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon.
Synopsis
The plot is a romantic comedy and tells the story of a lonely widower, Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who decides to remarry. He pursues several local spinsters, who each reject his advances. However, Aramintha (Lillian Hall-Davis), his housekeeper, is secretly in love with him and eventually Sweetland comes to realise that the right woman was there on his doorstep all along.
The supporting cast includes Gordon Harker, in a comic role as a surly workman called Churdles Ash; Gibb McLaughlin as Henry Coaker; and Maud Gill as Thirza Tapper.
After being thought in the public domain for decades, the film’s rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005.
Cast
- Jameson Thomas - Samuel Sweetland
- Lillian Hall-Davis - Araminta Dench, his Housekeeper
- Gordon Harker - Churdles Ash: his Handyman
- Gibb McLaughlin - Henry Coaker
- Maud Gill - Thirza Tapper
- Louie Pounds - Widow Windeatt
- Olga Slade - Mary Hearn: Postmistress
- Ruth Maitland - Mercy Bassett
- Antonia Brough - Susan
- Haward Watts - Dick Coaker
- Mollie Ellis - Sibley “Tibby” Sweetland (uncredited)
External links
- The Farmer’s Wife at the Internet Movie Database
Films directed by Alfred Hitchcock
1920s
Number 13 · Always Tell Your Wife · The Pleasure Garden · The Mountain Eagle · The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog · Downhill · Easy Virtue · The Ring · The Farmer’s Wife · Champagne · The Manxman · Blackmail
1930s
Juno and the Paycock · Murder! · Mary · Elstree Calling · The Skin Game · Number Seventeen · Rich and Strange · Waltzes from Vienna · The Man Who Knew Too Much · The 39 Steps · Secret Agent · Sabotage · Young and Innocent · The Lady Vanishes · Jamaica Inn
1940s
Rebecca · Foreign Correspondent · Mr. & Mrs. Smith · Suspicion · Saboteur · Shadow of a Doubt · Lifeboat · Aventure Malgache · Bon Voyage · Spellbound · Notorious · The Paradine Case · Rope · Under Capricorn
1950s
Stage Fright · Strangers on a Train · I Confess · Dial M for Murder · Rear Window · To Catch a Thief · The Trouble with Harry · The Man Who Knew Too Much · The Wrong Man · Vertigo · North by Northwest
1960s
Psycho · The Birds · Marnie · Torn Curtain · Topaz
1970s
Frenzy · Family Plot
Misc
List of Hitchcock cameo appearances · List of unproduced Hitchcock projects • Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies
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