About this movie
Cast & Crew
Cast
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Jameson Thomas
Samuel Sweetland
- Lillian Hall-Davis
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Gordon Harker
Churdles Ash: The Handyman
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Gibb McLaughlin
Henry Coaker
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Maud Gill
Thirza Tapper
- Louie Pounds
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Olga Slade
Mary Hearn, Postmistress
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Ruth Maitland
Mercy Bassett
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Antonia Brough
Susan
- Haward Watts
- Mollie Ellis
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Lilian Hall-Davis
Araminta Dench, the young maid
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Louise Pounds
Widow Windeatt
Directors
- Alfred Hitchcock
Producers
- John Maxwell
Writers
- Leslie Arliss
- Alfred Hitchcock
- J.E. Hunter
- Norman Lee
- Eden Phillpotts
- Eliot Stannard
The Farmer's Wife
This first film version of Eden Philpotts' play The Farmer's Wife was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The story involves a roughhewn widowed farmer (Samuel Sweetland) in search of a new bride. Every candidate for the "title" proves insufficient, either because they fail to meet the farmer's exacting standards or because they want no part of him. Eventually the farmer realizes that his "perfect" mate has been under his own nose all along. The Farmer's Wife was remade in 1941, with Basil Sydney in the lead.
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
88%
percent positive reviews
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Mordaunt Hall, New York TimesIt has been nicely directed with a keen eye for the sunlight and shadows over the winding country roads, and the indoor scenes are always correct as to furnishings.
– Full review
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Hitchcock disliked the film, but it offers an unusual glimpse of the master before he settled into thrillers. Matters of marriage were always much on Hitchcock's mind.
– Full review
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