The Farmer's Wife (1941 film)
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| Based on | The Farmer's Wife by Eden Phillpotts |
| Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
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| Cinematography | Claude Friese-Greene |
| Edited by | Flora Newton |
| Music by | Guy Jones |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Pathé Pictures |
Release date | 24 January 1941 |
Running time | 81 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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The Farmer's Wife is a 1941 British comedy drama film directed by Norman Lee and Leslie Arliss and starring Basil Sydney, Wilfrid Lawson and Nora Swinburne.[1] It is based on the play The Farmer's Wife by Eden Phillpotts which had previously been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock for a 1928 film of the same name.[2][3] It was produced by ABPC at Welwyn Studios, at a time when the company's main Elstree Studios had been requisitioned for wartime use.
Synopsis
Farmer Samuel Sweetland, a widower with two daughters, buys a large neighbouring farm that he has coveted all his life. Now convinced that he needs to remarry to provide his new estate with a proper mistress he draws up a list of three possible candidates with the assistance of his housekeeper Araminta Grey. They are Louisa Windeatt, a wealthy and spirited fox-hunting widow, Thirza Tapper, a prim unmarried lady who owns a nearby cottage and Mary Hearne, an attractive barmaid from London.
Meanwhile Sweetland's daughters, the forceful, coquettish Petronell and the shyer Sibley, have their own romantic entanglements of the young men of the area. Petronell tips her hat at Richard Coaker, only to discover that he is in love her younger sister. She finds eventual comfort in the arms of another suitor George. Sweetland's own courtships go badly as for one reason or another each of the women reject his offer of marriage. Dejected it is only then that he realises it his faithful housekeeper Araminta who he really loves.
Cast
- Basil Sydney as Samuel Sweetland
- Wilfrid Lawson as Churdles Ash
- Nora Swinburne as Araminta Grey
- Patricia Roc as Sibley
- Michael Wilding as Richard Coaker
- Bunty Payne as Petronell
- Enid Stamp-Taylor as Mary Hearne
- Betty Warren as Louisa Windeatt
- Viola Lyel as Thirza Tapper
- Edward Rigby as Tom Gurney
- Kenneth Griffith as George Smerdon
- A. Bromley Davenport as Henry Coaker
- Jimmy Godden as Sergeant
- Gilbert Gunn as Pianist
- James Harcourt as Valiant Dunnybrigg
- Mark Daly as P. C. Chave
- Davina Craig as Susie
- Hilda Bayley as Mrs. Rundle
- David Keir as Auctioneer
- Patrick Ludlow as Curate
- John Salew as Mr. Rundle
- Olga Slade as Minor role
References
- ^ "The Farmer's Wife (1941)". BFI.
- ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
- ^ Strauss p.123
Bibliography
- Strauss, Marc Raymond. Alfred Hitchcock's Silent Films. McFarland, 2015.
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