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  Mollie Ellis (left) and Jameson Thomas.
Photograph: courtesy Austrian Film Museum.
 
 
The Farmer’s Wife
Also known as Die Frau des Farmers in Germany
(1928) England
B&W : Ten reels
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Jameson Thomas [Samuel Sweetland], Lilian Hall-Davis [Araminta Dench, his housekeeper], Gordon Harker [Churdles Ash, his handyman], Gibb McLoughlin [Henry Coaker], Maud Gill [Thirza Tapper], Louie Pounds [Widow Windeatt], Olga Slade [Mary Hearn, the postmistress], Ruth Maitland [Mercy Bassett], Antonia Brough [Susan], Haward Watts [Dick Coaker], Mollie Ellis [Sibley Sweetland]

British International Pictures, Limited, production; distributed by Wardour Films, Limited. / Adapted for the screen (scenario) by Eliot Stannard + [Leslie Arliss, J.E. Hunter, Norman Lee and Alfred Hitchcock], from the play The Farmer’s Wife by Eden Phillpotts. Art direction by C. Wilfred Arnold. Assistant director, Frank Mills. Photography (cinematography) by John J. Cox. Film editor, Alfred Booth. / Released March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Hitchcock’s seventh film. The film was released in France in 1928. The film was released in the USA on 4 January 1930. The original nitrate camera negative has decomposed. / Silent film.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive [two 35mm fine-grain master positives (struck 1960s)]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: StudioCanal/Canal+ Image UK [United Kingdom].

Keywords: Animals: Dogs, Horses - Cottages - Courtships - Death - Families: Daughters, Fathers, Wives - Farmers - Fireplaces - Furniture: Chairs - Glee clubs - Rivalry - Weddings: Brides, Grooms

Listing updated: 4 February 2019.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Maltin-Classic p. 208; Perry-British pp. 57, 328; Taylor-Hitchcock pp. 91, 92-93, 103 : Website-BFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.

Streaming: Amazon.

 
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