The Farmer's Wife
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A gently comedic silent-era portrait of a widowed farmer's earnest, bumbling search for companionship and remarriage, grounded in small-town social dynamics and the vulnerabilities of middle age.
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
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