The Farmer's Wife
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Farmer's Wife |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1928 |
| length | 129 minutes |
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| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| script |
Eliot Stannard anonymous: Leslie Arliss Alfred Hitchcock J. E. Hunter Norman Lee |
| production |
John Maxwell for British International Pictures |
| camera | John J. Cox |
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The Farmer's Wife is a British romantic comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock from 1928. It is based on the play of the same name by the English author Eden Phillpotts .
action
The widowed farmer Samuel Sweetland wants to remarry. Together with his housekeeper, he selects three potential candidates, but none of them is interested in succumbing to his advertising. Finally, he realizes that his housekeeper, who has been keeping an eye on him for a long time, is the right one for him.
background
- The Farmer's Wife ran successfully as a stage play in London. Similar to the production of The Man from the Isle of Man , Hitchcock was faced with the problem of developing a cinematic form from the dialogue-heavy and naturally static play that corresponded to his ideas about cinema.
- After the cameraman's illness, Hitchcock had to step in as a cameraman himself and shot large parts of the film himself and - according to his own memory - also took care of the lighting.
Reviews
Hitchcock's assessment
"I can not very well to me The Farmer's Wife remember, but it is certainly true that my desire to express myself through cinema's own resources, was stimulated by the fact that I was a stage play filmed [...] At The Farmer's Wife have I did what I could, but it wasn't a very good film. ” (Alfred Hitchcock in conversation with François Truffaut in Mr. Hitchcock, How did you do it? )
Web links
- The Farmer's Wife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Farmer's Wife at screenonline