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The Skin Game is a 1931 British drama film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1920 play by John Galsworthy and produced by British International Pictures. The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrists and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud between them. Edmund Gwenn and Helen Haye reprised their respective ...
The Skin Game: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn. An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
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- Drama
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1931-06-20
The Skin Game (1931) is a British feature film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a play by John Galsworthy and produced by British International Pictures. The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrists and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud between them. After being thought to be in the public domain for decades ...
- Alfred Hitchcock
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other. A rich family, the Hillcrests, is fighting against the speculator, Hornblower, who sends away poor farmers to build factories on their lands. When Mrs. Hillcrest finds out that Chloe Hornblower was a prostitute, she uses this ...
The Skin Game (1931) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis An English aristocrat's wife (Helen Haye) blackmails a progressive (Edmund Gwenn) over a land deal. Director Alfred Hitchcock.
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- Edmund Gwenn
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Drama
This uncharacteristic Alfred Hitchcock endeavor was adapted by Hitch and his wife, Alma Reville, from a play by John Galsworthy. The British countryside turns into an ideological battlefield when Hornblower (Edmund Gwenn), a wealthy, self-man tradesman, stakes his claim to a piece of valuable forest property controlled for literally centuries by the "landed gentry."
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