The Farmer's Wife DVD 1929 A Farmer felesége / Directed by Alfred Hitchcock / Starring: Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker

UPC 5999554701011

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN THE EU

AUDIO: English 5.1

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 129 minutes

English Summary:

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 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.

Tibby, the wife of Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) 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 (Lillian Hall-Davis) make out a list of possibilities.

First is Widow Louisa Windeatt, but Sweetland is shocked and mad when she rejects his advances and says she is too independent for him. Next, he attempts to court Thirza Tapper, a nervous wreck who almost collapses when Sweetland proposes to her. She, too, rejects him because she says she has no need for a man, and he is furious yet again. He wanders outside as other guests arrive for her party. His grumpy servant Ash is helping at the party, wearing an ill-fitting coat and trying to keep his trousers up while doing his work at the party.

Hungarian Summary: 

A film központi figurája egy jóravaló, megözvegyült farmer, akinek sehogy sem sikerül dolgos, kedves menyasszonyt találnia magának. Nem csoda, hiszen nap mint nap az orra előtt tevékenykedik, csakhogy a szemrevaló női személy nem más, mint saját házvezetőnője...

Cast / Szereplők:

• Jameson Thomas - Samuel Sweetland
• Lillian Hall-Davis - Araminta Dench, his Housekeeper
• Gordon Harker - Churdles Ash: his Handyman
• Gibb McLaughlin - Henry Coaker
• Maud Gill - Thirza Tapper
• Louie Pounds - Widow Louisa Windeatt
• Olga Slade - Mary Hearn: Postmistress
• Ruth Maitland - Mercy Bassett
• Antonia Brough - Susan
• Haward Watts - Dick Coaker
• Mollie Ellis - Sibley "Tibby" Sweetland (uncredited)