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The Farmer's Wife

The Farmer's Wife

1928
Romance, Comedy
2h 9m
Farmer Sweetland is a lonely old widower. He is determined to marry again and he enlists the help of his housekeeper Minta to pick a wife from the local single women. (imdb)
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The Farmer's Wife

1928
Romance, Comedy
2h 9m
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Rated 24 Dec 2010
44
10th
44.250
Rated 19 Jan 2012
50
34th
Another forgettable silent from Hitchcock's early days. At least it's humorous, and is better told than most of his early works.
Rated 20 Jun 2013
80
57th
Not quite a black comedy, though The Farmer's Wife definitely has a mean streak. Sweetland is a bastard through and through, and most of the female cast come off as heartless shrews. Still, if you can look past that (and why shouldn't you?) there's laughs to be found from beginning to end.
Rated 27 Dec 2013
53
25th
Forgettable, but with hints of genius flashing through, like most of his early work.
Rated 02 Jan 2015
50
0th
Alfred Hitchcock #1
Rated 09 Jul 2016
60
15th
Should have been a one-reeler
Rated 22 Apr 2017
48
31st
A romantic comedy by Hitchcock. Now, there's a sentence I don't get to type out very often. It's a silent movie about a widower who wants to remarry and is a real ass about rejections. And a woman stuck in the friendzone. And it explains how Hitchcock ended up as the master of suspense. He made this, which not only has no suspense but actually a negative amount and this netted him a surplus of suspense to use in later movies. This was my rather roundabout way of calling this movie 'predictable'.
Rated 13 Jun 2019
55
42nd
Its fairly good for what it is, which is a light weight disposable romantic comedy.
Rated 28 Sep 2021
42
5th
It moves at an adequate enough pace to pass the time without becoming boring. But I’m not sure if the farmer’s insensitive marriage proposals are just totally outdated attempts at humor or meant to be taken straight and therefor even more cringeworthy. Either way he comes across as such a sour arse that the inevitable happy ending feels totally unearned.

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