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The Skin Game

Alfred Hitchcock • Drama, G

This early Alfred Hitchcock drama sees him again adapting a stage play; this time reworking Galsworthy's account of the increasingly bitter, even vicious battle for land between an aristocratic family (down to their last Rolls Royce) and a nouveau riche industrialist. With Edmund Gwenn in the first of his four roles for Hitchcock.

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C.V. France Mr Hillcrist
Helen Haye Mrs Hillcrist
Jill Esmond Jill Hillcrist
Edmund Gwenn Mr Hornblower
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