Hitchcock changed studios in order to develop his own projects but that lasted just one film (The Ring, 1927, which flopped), and then he was back to adapting stage comedies.
The Farmer's Wife is a charming and genuinely funny comedy of manners which doesn't include any trademark eye popping point of view shots, but Hitch does a fine job of adapting the play's dialogue into visual humour.
A middle aged farmer of limited visual appeal decides it's time to remarry and so proposes to each of the similarly alluring spinsters in the village only to find they aren't interested in spending the rest of their lives with this cantankerous blowhard.
Fortunately, his attractive, astute and congenial housekeeper sees through all his faults and after being overlooked for years, agrees to be his wife (and take over the farm). Gordon Harker steals the film as a rather repellent factotum cum freeloader.