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This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
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Mollie Ellis (left) and Jameson Thomas.     Photograph: courtesy Austrian Film Museum.

Cast: Jameson Thomas [Samuel Sweetland], Lilian Hall-Davis [Araminta Dench, his housekeeper], Gordon Harker [Churdles Ash, his handyman], Gibb McLoughlin [Henry Coaker], Maud Gill [Thirza Tapper], Louie Pounds [Widow Windeatt], Olga Slade [Mary Hearn, the postmistress], Ruth Maitland [Mercy Bassett], Antonia Brough [Susan], Haward Watts [Dick Coaker], Mollie Ellis [Sibley Sweetland]

British International Pictures, Limited, production; distributed by Wardour Films, Limited. / Adapted for the screen (scenario) by Eliot Stannard + [Leslie Arliss, J.E. Hunter, Norman Lee and Alfred Hitchcock], from the play The Farmer’s Wife by Eden Phillpotts. Art direction by C. Wilfred Arnold. Assistant director, Frank Mills. Photography (cinematography) by John J. Cox. Edited by Alfred Booth. / Released March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Hitchcock’s seventh film. The film was released in France in 1928. The film was released on 4 January 1930 in the USA. / Silent film.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Animals: Dogs, Horses - Cottages - Courtships - Death - Families: Daughters, Fathers, Wives - Farmers - Fireplaces - Furniture: Chairs - Glee clubs - Rivalry - Weddings: Brides, Grooms

Listing updated: 24 January 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Maltin-Guide p. 395; Perry-British pp. 57, 328; Taylor-Hitchcock pp. 91, 92-93, 103 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.