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The Farmer’s Wife is a silent movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released in 1928. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899–29 April 1980) was a British-born film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. ...
1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
It was based on 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. Eden Phillpotts (November, 1862 - December 29, 1960) was a British novelist, poet, and dramatist. ...
Dartmoor is a National Park in the centre of the English county of Devon. ...
The inner harbour, Brixham, south Devon, at low tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...
The plot is a romantic comedy and tells the story of a lonely widower, Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who decides to remarry. He pursues several local spinsters, who each reject his advances. However, Aramintha (Lillian Hall-Davis), his housekeeper, is secretly in love with him and eventually Sweetland comes to realise that the right woman was there on his doorstep all along. Lillian Hall-Davis (born June 23, 1898 in London; died October 25, 1933 in London) was a British film leading actress during the silent era. ...
The supporting cast includes Gordon Harker, in a comic role as a surly workman called Churdles Ash; Gibb McLaughlin as Henry Coaker; and Maud Gill as Thirza Tapper.
The movie features cinematography by Jack E. Cox, editing by Alfred Booth; and art direction by C. Wilfred Arnold. The Assistant Director was Frank Mills.
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