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| | screenonline: Farmer's Wife, The (1928) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | , concerns the search of a widowed farmer, Samuel Sweetland, for a new wife, approaching four local spinsters with arrogant expectation, only to be wounded by rejection each time, until he at last realises the suitability of his doting housekeeper, Minta. |
 | | In particular, the scene in which the farmer and Minta consider the "possibles and the impossibles" for the role of future Mrs Sweetland is a small masterpiece of economic storytelling. |
 | | The director subtly places the idea of Minta as the best candidate in the minds of the audience by showing Sweetland imagining each of the "possibles" seated in the chair facing his; as the image of each candidate fades, the real Minta is revealed in her place. |
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