Rent The Farmer's Wife (1928)
3.2 of 5 from 57 ratings
1h 37min
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- Synopsis:
A silent romantic comedy, 'The Farmer's Wife' rates as one of Hitchcock's less obvious successes. It tells the story of farmer Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who has sadly lost his beloved wife. Lonely and with only his long time housekeeper, Araminta (Lillian Hall-Davis) for company, he discusses the possibility of finding himself a new wife to share his home and his life. The loyal 'Minti' agrees to help him in his search for a new companion although her own feelings for Samuel are strong, albeit unknown to the lonely farmer. Having neither the courage to tell him nor the wish to let him down in his search for happiness, she proffers her advice and comments on the ladies who come calling - but poor Samuel finds no replacement for his dear departed wife. If only he could see that a new love is within arms reach; a woman only too happy to share his fireside thoughts and her heart with the man she has long since been devoted to. - Actors:
- Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill, Louie Pounds, Olga Slade, Ruth Maitland, Antonia Brough, Haward Watts, Mollie Ellis
- Directors:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writers:
- Eden Phillpotts, Eliot Stannard, Leslie Arliss, Alfred Hitchcock, J.E. Hunter, Norman Lee
- Studio:
- Whe Europe Limited
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- Alfred Hitchcock's British Films, Films by Genre, Hitchcock in the 1940s, A Brief History of Film..., The Last Laugh: The Film That Changed Cinema
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Reviews (1) of The Farmer's Wife
Silent Comedy. - The Farmer's Wife review by Steve
Alfred Hitchcock signed with British International Pictures in order to develop his own projects, but that lasted just one film. A year after The Ring flopped he was back to adapting stage comedies. The legendary Master of Suspense was dormant.
This is a charming and genuinely funny comedy of manners which doesn't include any trademark point of view shots or much visual style at all. Hitch does a decent job at adapting the play's dialogue into visual humour, though the cast is unremarkable.
A middle aged farmer and widower (Jameson Thomas) of limited visual appeal decides it's time to remarry and so proposes to each of the similarly alluring spinsters in the village only to find they aren't interested in spending the rest of their lives with the cantankerous blowhard.
Fortunately, his attractive, astute and congenial housekeeper (Lillian Hall-Davies) sees through all his faults and after being overlooked for years, agrees to be his wife (and take over the farm). Gordon Harker steals the film as a rather repellent factotum cum freeloader.
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