The Farmer's Wife | |
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Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
Screenplay by | Eliot Stannard Leslie Arliss (uncredited) |
Based on | The Farmer's Wife play by Eden Phillpotts Adelaide Phillpotts |
Produced by | John Maxwell (uncredited) |
Starring | Jameson Thomas Lillian Hall-Davis Gordon Harker |
Cinematography | Jack E. Cox |
Edited by | Alfred Booth |
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Distributed by | Wardour Films |
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Running time | 107 minutes (2012 restoration) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent 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]