Another oddity from the silent years of Hitchcock. This is both a very broad comedy about a farmer seeking a second wife out of the available women in his vicinity, and a sort of pastoral ode. Except for The Trouble With Harry, no film of Hitchcock really celebrates the beauty of a rural existence like this one. Like most silent films, there are several versions, all of different lengths, and the one I watched clocked in at 129 minutes, which is a lot of time to spend on essentially a one-joke comedy. The fact that it was well-made, or the fact that it starred the gorgeous tragic silent film actress Lilian Hall-Davis, or the fact that I was spending time in my air-conditioned office during the tenth heatwave of this summer, didn't really justify the hours spent.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Another oddity from the silent years of Hitchcock. This is both a very broad comedy about a farmer seeking a second wife out of the available women in his vicinity, and a sort of pastoral ode. Except for The Trouble With Harry, no film of Hitchcock really celebrates the beauty of a rural existence like this one. Like most silent films, there are several versions, all of different lengths, and the one I watched clocked in at 129 minutes, which is a lot of time to spend on essentially a one-joke comedy. The fact that it was well-made, or the fact that it starred the gorgeous tragic silent film actress Lilian Hall-Davis, or the fact that I was spending time in my air-conditioned office during the tenth heatwave of this summer, didn't really justify the hours spent.
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