The Farmer's Wife (1928)

After a decent time of mourning after the death of his wife, a farmer (Jameson Thomas) decides to remarry and draws up a list of prospective wives. The only problem is that his ego doesn't take into account that those women may not be interested. Based on the play by Eden Phillpots and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This overlong comedy has some merit but it's obvious from the very beginning who the farmer will end up with. Thomas's farmer is such a rude lout that one can't blame the women for rejecting him. Indeed, why the woman he ends up with wants him at all is a mystery. Hitchcock dwells too long on some of the scenes that you want to cry out, "Get on with it!". Still, I suppose if you find country bumpkins with bad table manners funny, you may well find this amusing. With Lillian Hall Davis, Gordon Harker, Maud Gill, Louie Pounds and Olga Slade, who seems to have some comedy chops.