The Farmer's Wife (1928)
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Synopsis
Farmer Sweetland is a lonely old widower. He is determined to marry again and he enlists the help of his housekeeper Minta to pick a wife from the local single women. (© IMDB)
Technical Information
- black & white
- sound mix: silent, with English intertitles
- aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- running time: 97 minutes
- production studio: British International Pictures
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Recent DVD Releases
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released in 2008
| Laquelle des Trois (1928) / Manxman (1929) - Studio Canal (France, 2008) R2 PAL 1.33:1
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released in 2007
| The Farmer's Wife (1928) - Optimum Releasing (UK, 2007) - part of a box set R2 PAL 1.33:1
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released in 2005
| The Farmer's Wife (1928) - Brentwood Home Video (USA, 2005) - part of a box set NTSC 1.33:1 [02:09:32]
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| Laquelle des Trois (1928) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - part of a box set PAL 1.33:1 [01:34:03]
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| The Farmer's Wife (1928) - Waterfall Home Entertainment Ltd (UK, 2005) PAL 1.33:1 [01:37:09]
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Cast and Crew
Directed by:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Frank Mills - assistant director
Starring:
- Jameson Thomas - Samuel Sweetland
- Lillian Hall-Davis - His Housekeeper, Araminta Dench
- Gordon Harker - His Handyman, Churdles Ash
- 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)
Written by:
- Eden Phillpots - original play
- Eliot Stannard - adaptation
- Leslie Arliss (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited)
- J E Hunter (uncredited)
- Norman Lee (uncredited)
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Edited by:
Art Direction by:
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| 1930s | Juno and the Paycock · Murder! · The Skin Game · Rich and Strange · Number Seventeen · 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 and Mrs Smith · Suspicion · Saboteur · Shadow of a Doubt · Lifeboat · 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 |
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