The Farmer Takes a Wife Page #2

Synopsis: 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...
 
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Year:
1935
91 min
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JOTHAM KLORE!

OH, FORTUNE,

YOU CAN'T GO.

THAT TOOTH'S HALF OUT AND HALF IN.

WELL, THE HALF THAT'S

OUT WON'T GO BACK IN,

AND THE HALF THAT'S IN WON' COME OUT TILL I GET BACK.

YEAH, BUT SHE'S LIABLE TO SOBER UP,

AND I'LL HAVE TO GE HER DRUNK ALL OVER AGAIN.

TELL YOU WHAT I'LL DO,

I'LL GO WATCH THE FIGH AND COME BACK AND TELL

YOU HOW IT'S GOING.

GAMMY, THERE'S

GOING TO BE A FIGHT!

JOTHAM KLORE:

JUST GOT IN TOWN!

WELL- DELLA!

DELLA! YOU GO BACK INTO THE HOTEL NOW.

CAN'T I SEE JUS THE BEGINNING OF IT?

FIGHTS AIN'T NICE

FOR LITTLE GIRLS.

- BUT GAMMY!

- GO ON, NOW. GO ON.

GO ON.

HOWDY DO?

I'M JOTHAM KLORE.

IT'S GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD

UP AND DOWN THIS DITCH

WHEN I WANNA MAKE A LANDING I MAKE IT-

IRREGARDLESS.

I'M WALT LANSING, AND THE

SAME IS CONSIDERED ABOUT ME

UP THE BLACK RIVER

CANAL.

THIS IS:

THE ERIE!

HE CAN'T SWIM!

GIVING ME SASS:

AND HE CAN'T EVEN TAKE CARE

OF HIMSELF IN THE WATER.

IF I DONE RIGHT,

I'D LET HIM DROWN.

- WEREN'T MUCH.

- IT DIDN'T LAST LONG.

EXCUSE ME, SIR, BUT WHO IS THAT LADY?

HER?

THAT'S

MOLLY LARKINS.

THE BEST COOK:

ON THE ERIE.

SHE WORKS FOR:

JOTHAM KLORE.

HE'S THE BULLY

OF THE WHOLE CANAL.

GOODBYE.

IT WAS OVER:

IN A JIFFY.

I'M AFRAID WE HAD A SLIGH MISFORTUNE DURING YOUR ABSENCE.

IVY SAID I TOOK OU THE WRONG TOOTH.

- THE WRONG TOOTH!

- SHE POINTED TO IT HERSELF.

WELL, I CAN'T WASTE

ALL DAY HERE.

I GOTTA GO SEE THE FREIGHT AGEN ABOUT MY CARGO FOR TOMORROW.

WELL, YOU GO AHEAD, AND I'LL JUS START FROM THE BEGINNING AGAIN.

FORTUNE, THAT'S AWFUL ABOU YOU PULLING OUT THE WRONG TOOTH.

IT'S NOT RIGHT.

YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE

FIGHT I HAD IN ALBANY.

I LICKED FIVE MEN.

IT WAS ASTONISHING.

I WAS SURPRISED MYSELF

THAT ONE PERSON COULD DO IT.

GO AND GET THOSE WET CLOTHES

OFF BEFORE YOU CATCH COLD,

AND HURRY 'CAUSE I WANNA GO SHOPPING.

I GOT A SPECIAL FINE

SUPPER PLANNED.

I'LL SEE YOU

LATER.

ALL RIGHT,

CARGO WHEELS:

AND WAGON PARTS:

TO BUFFALO.

MUST BE MAKING UP A HEAP

OF THEM COVERED WAGONS.

THEY EXPECT A LOT OF SETTLERS

TO START WEST THIS SUMMER.

THEM COVERED WAGONS

IS ABOUT THE ONLY WAY

THEY CAN GET THEIR

FAMILIES ACROSS THE PLAINS.

SECOND TIME I'VE HAULED

A BOATFUL OF THEM.

GOT A LOAD FOR MY BOAT, MR. FISHER?

GOT A FINE CARGO OF HOGS TO ALBANY.

WELL, MR. FISHER, I'M

GETTING SICK OF HAULING HOGS.

WHAT ELSE IS:

YOUR BOAT FIT FOR?

WELL, IT NEVER WILL BE

FIT FOR ANYTHING ELSE

IF I KEEP:

HAULING HOGS.

MY COOK SAYS IT'S THE WORS SMELL SHE EVER GOT INTO.

THEN WHY'D YOU EVER

CONTRACT FOR IT?

WELL, YOU TALKED ME

INTO IT.

NOW, LAST YEAR

I REMEMBER SAYING TO YOU,

SAYS I,

"WON'T HOGS SMELL?"

AND YOU SAYS,

"THERE'S HOGS AND HOGS."

WELL, I CARRY THEM

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Walter D. Edmonds

Walter "Walt" Dumaux Edmonds (July 15, 1903 – January 24, 1998) was an American writer best known for historical novels. One of them, Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), was adapted as a Technicolor feature film in 1939, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. more…

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