Friday, August 25, 2017

The Skin Game (1931)


Wardour Films 
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Lionsgate)

An affluent British family's rural home is threatened by a land-grabbing neighbor who wants to build factories. In a tense auction, the neighbor wins the much sought after land by underhanded means. The other family resorts to blackmail to get it back. The ugly side of class warfare is exposed by Hitchcock in this grim story. Edmund Gwenn is memorable as the relentless capitalist with no soul.

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