The Farmer's Wife

Hitchcocks early work is swinging in quality, both from movie to movie, but often also within the movies themselves. In the case of his silent "The Farmer´s Wife", we are treated with an adaptation of a popular play, that he tried hard to turn into cinema and only halfway succeeded. The play is very dialog heavy and not the best stepstone for a silent movie. He did what he could to transform the dialog into cinemati…