The Farmer's Wife (1928) - titles and intertitles

Titles and intertitles from The Farmer's Wife (1928)

Opening Titles

British International Pictures Ltd presents The Farmer's Wife by Eden Phillpots

Directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Adapted for the screen by Eliot Stannard Potography       Art Director John J. Cox     C. Wilfred Arnold Assistant Director Frank Mills

A BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURE produced at Estree, London. Distributed by Wardour Films Ltd.

Cast Farmer Sweetland . . . . . . Jameson Thomas Araminta Dench, His Housekeeper . Lilian Hall-Davis Churdles Ash, His Handyman . . . Gordon Harker Henry Coaker . . . . . . . . Gibb McLaughlin Thirza Tapper . . . . . . . . . . . . Maud Gill Widow Windeatt . . . . . . . . Louie Pounds Mary Hearn, Postmistress . . . . . Olga Slade Mercy Bassett . . . . . . . . . Ruth Maitland Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antonia Brough Dick Coaker . . . . . . . . . . Haward Watts Sibley Sweetland . . . . . . . . . Mollie Ellis

Intertitles and Captions

"...and don't forget to air your Master's pants, 'Minta."

"He'll be the next to wed now his daughter's marryin'."

"Why not? There's some- thing magical in the married state ... it have a beautiful side, Churdles Ash."

"Beer drinking don't do 'alf the 'arm of love- making."

"If I were the Government, I'd give the drunkards a rest and look after the lovers."

"I've seen the Master 'ave 'is eye on a woman or two to late."

"To see an old man in love be worse than seeing him with the whooping cough!"

"Holy Matrimony be a proper stream roller for flattening the hope out of a man and the joy out of a woman."

"...and there be many here who have oft been wishful of a partner..."

"...and the need of a strong man to lean against."

"Now don't forget, dear Mr. Sweetland, you are coming to my little affair next Thursday..."

"...and may Mr. Ash stand at the door and announce the guests? ... I have a livery he can put on."

"I must take time by the forelock, 'Minta, else I'll be a lonely man soon."

"'Twas my late dear Tibby's last wish that in the fulness of time I would take another ... but she didn't name no names."

"There's a female or two be floating around my mind like the smell of a Sunday dinner."

"Get pencil and paper, 'Minta, and us'll run over the possible and impossibles!"

"You know her back view's not a day over thirty!"

"But, you have to live with her front view."

"How about Thirza Tapper?"

"I don't mind they pillowy women ... so long as they be pillowy in the right places."

"A woman that's a pillow at thirty be often a feather bed at forty!"

"Just put down Mercy Bassett of the Royal Oak for luck."

"'Tis almost indecent to see 'em all on one bit of paper."

"There's no need to wish me luck -- Louisa Windeatt will come like a lamb to the slaughter."

"The widow herself!"

"What brings you up my hill, Sweetland?"

"I come over like the foxes you're so fond of ... to pick up a fat hen!"

"Wait till you hear me ... and then there'll be some- thing to drink to."

"I be marryin' again, Louisa."

"Then the fat hen you want ... is it for the wedding breakfast?"

"You're the first to know your good luck, my dear -- --"

"-- -- -- and I am a man that a little child can lead but a regiment of soldiers couldn't drive."

"Yes be a very short word."

"But there's a shorter..."

"I am not the sort of woman for you -- I am far too independant."

"You'll only feel the velvet glove and never know I was breaking you in."

"Don't think that I shall come up your darned hill again!"

"And you haven't treated me in a very ladylike spirit over this job.... you ain't nice-minded!"

"And it's no use changing your mind ..... you've brought your doom on yourself."

"Don't let that fox-hunting old baggage, Louisa Windeatt, come into this house no more."

...be please to see you. Don't forget the party commences at four o'clock punctually Yours sincerely Thirza Tapper

"It was very kind of you to come and help us, 'Minta .... and you too, Mr. Ash."

"The party ain't begun yet, sir."

"Do you want me to do the plums before the ices, then?"

"Now some men look for a bit of fat on a female..."

"Hang it, Thirza Tapper, I'm asking you to marry me!"

"I'm a man a little child can lead, through a regiment of soliders..."

"Rise, dear Samuel Sweetland."

"You are the first man who has accepted my sex challenge!"

"But I shall never seek the shelter or a man's arms -- not even yours."

"How was I to know the ices would melt if I left them near the fire!"

"I ain't the party, George!"

"Here's the Doctor and his wife."

"'Tis all as perfect as a railway refreshment room."

"His Worship the Parson, and his mother .... the Hon. Missus."

"They must be the glee- singers!"

"Will all those who have finished, please pass into the garden."

"Fruit... fruit in the garden please."

Mary Hearn, I'm marrying again."

"That's funny, a fortune- teller told me I'd be married inside a year!"

"I bet I can tell you who he is!"

"You... you, at your age!"

"Well, you don't want to marry a boy, do you?"

"Why not? 'Tis a way with girls to marry boys, isn't it?"

"Have you got the face to call yourself a girl?"

"What the mischief should I call myself, then?"

"Full blown and a bit over... that's what I call you!"

"The trouble with you is, you are too fond to dressing your mutton lamb fashion."

"Is this a nightmare?"

"You hat is,"

"You old sheep ..... to come to a woman in all her prime and beauty."

"Don't you think you were the first, 'cause you wasn't!"

"Guy Fawkes and Angels, what's Sammy doing to Postmistress?"

"But what was you doing, Sammy?"

I bain't be chasing any more women -- I shan't finish the list."

"It's like that Mercy Bassett of the Royal Oak, will be the same as the rest of 'em."

"I'm ashamed of Samuel Sweetland, offering himself at sale prices all round the country."

"It's a disgrace to us males that he can sink to go among 'em hat in hand... only to be laughed at for his pains!"

"Get my horse saddled!"

"My other coat!"

"Get on with you, I believe you're in love!"