The Farmer's Wife
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- 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 | |
|---|---|
| Image:The farmers wife med1.gif | |
| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Written by | Eliot Stannard |
| Starring | Jameson Thomas Lillian Hall-Davis Gordon Harker |
| Cinematography | Jack E. Cox |
| Distributed by | Wardour Films Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Super Features Image:Flag of the United States.svg |
| Release date(s) | March 1928 |
| Running time | 129 min. |
| Country | Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom |
| 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] External links
fr:Laquelle des trois ? it:La moglie del fattore
