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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
Aug 9, 2018 · There have been some exceptions, but The Skin Game falls into that category of films forced upon the young director. The Skin Game was first a play written by John Galsworthy. It premiered in London, then went onto a production in New York. Hitchcock’s film version is actually a remake of a silent version in 1921.
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Synopsis. 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 secret to blackmail the speculator and force him to stop his business.
When asked about The Skin Game (1931) in an interview with Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock said simply, "I didn't make it by choice, and there isn't much to be said about it." It's true that The Skin Game is not one of Hitchcock's best remembered movies, and in fact it is one of his least typical. Based on a 1920 play by John Galsworthy ...
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 secret to blackmail the speculator and force him to stop his business. — Claudio Sandrini <pulp99@geocities.com>.
