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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!"