The Skin Game

★★★★★

“Ancestral pride v. Industrial progress.”

1931 · 1 h 25 min

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · UK · Classical Hollywood

Drama

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Cast

Edmund Gwenn Jill Esmond C.V. France Helen Haye John Longden Phyllis Konstam

Credits

Written by: John Galsworthy

Plot

Two English families, an old landed one and a new industrial one, battle over land in a small village.

Sinekatalog’s take

Alfred Hitchcock's early drama, adapted from Galsworthy, is stagey but sharp on class conflict.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 5.7 / 10 (4,030 votes)
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