![]() The rival families’ ensuing feud has disastrous results. ![]() The Master has difficulty summoning up sympathy in and involvement with his faded source material in John Galsworthy’s stage play about a fervent clash in an English village between an old-money, upper class family called the Hillcrists (C V France and Helen Haye as Mr and Mrs Hillcrist and Jill Esmond as their daughter Jill) and an upstart speculator called Hornblower (Edmund Gwenn) and his family ( John Longden, Phyllis Konstam and Frank Lawton). Produced by British International Pictures, The Skin Game (1931) is worth a little look but it is a mostly fairly tedious experience, and one of Alfred Hitchcock’s least interesting movies, probably just of interest for Hitchcock completists only. The Skin Game ** (1931, Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, C V France, Helen Haye) – Classic Movie Review 2101
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