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Based on | The Farmer's Wife by Eden Phillpotts |
Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
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Cinematography | Claude Friese-Greene |
Edited by | Flora Newton |
Music by | Guy Jones |
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Distributed by | Pathé Pictures |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Farmer's Wife is a 1941 British comedy drama film directed by Norman Lee and Leslie Arliss and starring Basil Sydney, Wilfrid Lawson and Nora Swinburne.[1] It is based on the play The Farmer's Wife by Eden Phillpotts which had previously been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock for a 1928 film of the same name.[2][3] It was produced by ABPC at Welwyn Studios, at a time when the company's main Elstree Studios had been requisitioned for wartime use. The film is not widely known.[4]