The Farmer's Wife

The Farmer's Wife
US bootleg DVD sleeve
Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
Screenplay byEliot Stannard
Leslie Arliss (uncredited)
Based onThe Farmer's Wife play by
Eden Phillpotts
Adelaide Phillpotts
Produced byJohn Maxwell (uncredited)
StarringJameson Thomas
Lillian Hall-Davis
Gordon Harker
CinematographyJack E. Cox
Edited byAlfred Booth
Production
company
Distributed byWardour Films
Release date
  • 2 March 1928 (1928-03-02)
Running time
107 minutes (2012 restoration)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent film with English intertitles

The Farmer's Wife is a 1928 British silent romantic comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis and Gordon Harker.

It is adapted from a 1916 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. The Farmer's Wife is produced by British International Pictures at Elstree studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold. The film was remade as a 1941 film The Farmer's Wife directed by Leslie Arliss.[1]

  1. ^ Vagg, Stephen (25 March 2023). "A Brief History of Hitchcock Remakes". Filmink.