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. |
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!" |