The Farmer's Wife (1928)

Themes: Stairs, Mirrors, Brandy, Unlikely Romance, Pets, Hats, Class, Anti-Marriage Statement, Prayer

Characters:
Sam Sweetland
Minta
Churdles Ash
Thirza Tapper
Louise Windeatt
Mary Hearn
Mercy Basset

Notes:
Camera work: POV's around staircase, tight shots of garments, shot reverse shot with Farmer & rocking chair.

Anti-Marraige statement from handyman
Food: Roast in fireplace
Sheep, geese, dogs

Parallel reversal: Farmer imagining his past and possible future wives seated in the empty rocking chair opposite his own. Toward the end - this is repeated with Minta imagining the Farmer in the empty chair.

Mary Hearn: implied mental instability

Quips: "There's a female or two be floating around my mind like a Sunday dinner"
"Her back view's not a day over thirty"
"A woman that's a pillow at thirty is often a feather bed at forty"
"No need to wish me luck, she'll come like a lamb to the slaughter"
"...pick up a fat hen"
"You're too fond of dresing your mutton lamb fashion"