The Farmer's Wife (1941 film)

The Farmer's Wife
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Directed by
Written by
Based onThe Farmer's Wife
by Eden Phillpotts
Produced byWalter C. Mycroft
Starring
CinematographyClaude Friese-Greene
Edited byFlora Newton
Music byGuy Jones
Production
company
Distributed byPathé Pictures
Release date
  • 24 January 1941 (1941-01-24)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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]

  1. ^ "The Farmer's Wife (1941)". BFI. Archived from the original on 4 August 2017.
  2. ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Strauss p.123
  4. ^ Vagg, Stephen (25 March 2023). "A Brief History of Hitchcock Remakes". Filmink.

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