1928 · silent · comedy
The Farmer's Wife
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock1h 52m1928
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
Our read: The Farmer's Wife (1928) reads as a warm, steady, grounded silent · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle silent / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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