A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Mollie Ellis (left) and Jameson Thomas. Photograph: courtesy Austrian Film Museum.

Cast: Jameson Thomas [Farmer 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 [A British International Picture]. / 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. Film editor, Alfred Booth. Presented by British International Pictures, Limited. / Released March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Hitchcock’s seventh film. British Board of Film Censors certificate: U. The film was released in France in 1928. The film was released in the USA on 4 January 1930. The original nitrate camera negative has decomposed. / Silent film.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive [two 35mm fine-grain master positives (struck 1960s)]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: StudioCanal/Canal+ Image UK [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].

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

Listing updated: 11 April 2025.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Maltin-Classic p. 208; Perry-British pp. 57, 328; Taylor-Hitchcock pp. 91, 92-93, 103 : Website-BFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.