This week we return to Hitchcock’s silent era with The Farmer’s Wife, a comic romance set in the rural English country side.
Details: The Farmer’s Wife was released in 1928 by British International Pictures. Produced by John Maxwell. Screenplay by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Eden Phillpotts’ play. Starring James Thomas, Lillian Hall Davis, Gordon Harker, Maud Gill, and Louise Pounds. Cinematography by John J. Cox.
Ranking: 48 out of 52. Ranking movies is a reductive parlor game. It’s also fun. And it’s a good way to frame a discussion. We aggregated over 70 ranking lists from critics, fans, and magazines, and will be going through Alfred Hitchcock’s films from “worst” to “best.” Number Seventeen got 397 ranking points.

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