The Farmer's Wife

1928

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 32% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 32% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 3403 3.4K

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Plot summary

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.

Director

Alfred Hitchcock Photo
Alfred Hitchcock

Top cast

Ruth Maitland Photo
Ruth Maitland as Mercy Bassett
Olga Slade Photo
Olga Slade as Mary Hearn - Postmistress
Louie Pounds Photo
Louie Pounds as Widow Windeatt
Maud Gill Photo
Maud Gill as Thirza Tapper
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20.979 fps
1 hr 52 min
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English 2.0
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20.979 fps
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by wes-connors 6 / 10

Alfred Hitchcock Plays the Dating Game

After his wife dies, and their daughter marries, lonely widowed farmer Jameson Thomas (as Samuel Sweetland) decides to look for holy matrimony with another woman. With the help of devoted housekeeper Lillian Hall-Davis (as Minta Dench) and handyman Gordon Harker (as Churdles Ash), Mr. Thomas proposes to three matronly prospects: independent widow Louie Pounds (as Louisa Windeatt), frigid spinster Maud Gill (as Thirza Tapper), and pillowy postmistress Olga Slade (as Mary Hearn). None of the women prove to be satisfactory, but Thomas' ideal mate is closer than he thinksÂ… If "The Farmer's Wife" were filmed a few years earlier, in Hollywood, with Wallace Reid and Norma Shearer, we might have had four decades of romantic Alfred Hitchcock comediesÂ… well, maybe not. Anyway, it's a good silent moving picture. The opening sequence, which shows the sad passing of the farmer's wife, is very effective; it's a good change from the original play, considering the silent film medium. But, this film is too long, with the daughter's marriage immediately and unnecessarily dragging the story down; moreover, the ending is drawn out. Mr. Hitchcock's food filming fetish is evident throughout - nobody touches Ms. Gill's gelatin! ****** The Farmer's Wife (3/2/28) Alfred Hitchcock ~ Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Maud Gill
Reviewed by Quirky- 7 / 10

A slight, but charming early effort from Hitchcock

Although his name will forever be linked with 'suspense' films, this 1928 silent feature from Alfred Hitchcock shows the man had considerable comic sensibilities, too. The story concerns a widowed farmer (Jameson Thomas) who decides he needs a wife...129 minutes later, he finds that the perfect woman he was after was under his nose the entire time. Thomas is great as the desperate for love farmer -- watch how he makes a list of desirable women and goes to each one individually to propose, crossing each off the list when they turn him down. It may be overlong (those who've seen the edited 97 minute version yearn for this extended one...personally I think it too long), but the wry humour and the charming characters make this a nice enough early effort from Hitch.
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