The Farmer's Wife
- Jameson Thomas: Samuel Sweetland
- Lilian Hall -Davis: Araminta Dench, his Housekeeper
- Gordon Harker: 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
The Farmer's Wife is a British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1928. It is based on the eponymous stage play of the English author Eden Phillpotts.
Action
The widowed farmer Samuel Sweetland wants to marry again. Together with his housekeeper, he selects three potential candidates, but none of them has interest to succumb to its advertising. Finally, he notes that his housekeeper, who had long had an eye on him, the right thing for him.
Background
- The Farmer's Wife ran as a successful stage play in London. Hitchcock saw himself - as in the production of The Man from the Isle of Man - faced with the problem of developing from the dialogue -heavy and inherently static play a cinematic form that met his expectations of cinema.
- After the illness of the cameraman Hitchcock himself had to step in as a cameraman and turned large parts of the film itself and caring - as his own memory - yet also to the lighting.
Reviews
Assessment Hitchcock
" I can not remember very well The Farmer's Wife me, but it is certainly true that my desire to express myself through cinema 's own resources, was stimulated by the fact that I was a stage play filmed [ ... ] I At The Farmer's Wife I did what I could, but a very good movie, it was not. " (Alfred Hitchcock in an interview with François Truffaut in Mr. Hitchcock, how did you do that? )