The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)

Country: USA
Director: Victor Fleming
Production Co: Fox Film Corporation
Genre: Drama
Rating: 6.5/10
Length: 91 mins

Storyline

Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider leaving the exciting life on the canal for a banal one on a farm...—Ed Lorusso

Plot Keywords

farmer, cook, bully, boat captain, dentist, love interest, amusing, spirited, new york state, fair, boat, love triangle, fighting, marriage, cowardice, money, rural life, love, underdog, transformation, 1850s

Short Review

Slow sweet folk comedy, with stock types of the Erie canal days. I thought it over-rated as a play; its importance as a movie may be the introduction of nice Henry Fonda.