The Farmer’s Wife is a silent film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 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. Tibby, the wife of Samuel Sweetland dies, and shortly afterwards his daughter marries and leaves home, leaving him on his own with his two servants. His wife had told him that he should remarry after her death, so he pursues some local spinsters who were at his daughter's wedding after he and his housekeeper Minta make out a list of possibles. First is widow... Louisa Windeatt, but she is too independent. Next comes Thirza Tapper, a confirmed spinster and nervous wreck who almost collapses when he proposes to her. She too rejects him. He wanders outside as other guests arrive for her party. His servant Ash is helping at the party and Ash steals the scene here as a bolshy butler wearing an ill fitting coat and trying to keep his trousers up while doing his buttling work at the party.
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| Release date: | March 1928 |
| Directed by: | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Runtime: | 129 Minutes |
| Cinematography: | Jack E. Cox |
| Genre: | Comedy |