postmistress Hearn and Tapper compare notes and Hearn decides she should marry him after all and she goes to his house with Tapper. Having run through the women who have turned him down, Samuel sees Minta for the first time as more than a housekeeper and decides that she is the woman for him, if she'll have him. He tells her he has got used to being rejected and will not be angry if she rejects him, too. She accepts him and he tells her to put on the dress Tibby gave her. As she goes to the room, Hearn and Tapper arrive. Hearn says she is now willing to be his wife. Samuel says all should drink a toast to his wife to be and Hearn is sure it is her, until Minta comes down the stairs in an attractive dress. Hearn lapses into hysterics again as Sweetland reveals that Minta will be his bride. Cast Jameson Thomas as Samuel Sweetland Lillian Hall-Davis as Araminta Dench, his Housekeeper Gordon Harker as Churdles Ash: his Handyman Gibb McLaughlin as Henry Coaker Maud Gill as Thirza Tapper Louie Pounds as Widow Louisa Windeatt Olga Slade as Mary Hearn: Postmistress Ruth Maitland as Mercy Bassett Antonia Brough as Susan Haward Watts as Dick Coaker Diana Napier (credited as Mollie Ellis) as Sibley Sweetland Production The supporting cast includes Gordon Harker, in a comic role as a surly servant named Churdles Ash; Gibb McLaughlin as Henry Coaker; and Maud Gill as Thirza Tapper. As well as many indoor locations, there are a few outdoor scenes, such as Samuel getting about on a horse in open country as well as a large fox hunt starting off from the local inn. Preservation and home video status A restoration of The Farmer's Wife was completed in 2012 as part of the BFI's £2 million "Save the Hitchcock 9" project to restore all of the director's surviving silent films. Like Hitchcock's other British films, all of which are copyrighted worldwide, The Farmer's Wife has been heavily bootlegged on home video. Despite this, various licensed, restored releases have appeared on DVD, Blu-ray and video on demand from Optimum in the UK, Lionsgate and Kino Lorber in the US, and many others. At the end of 2023, The Farmer's Wife will enter the public domain in the United States but only in its non-restored, scoreless form. It will remain