The Skin Game [1931] (NTSC)

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Skinned Alive.......2006-05-11

"The Skin Game" is a highlight of Hitchcock's early career despite it's washed out picture and poor sound quality. What it has to offer the viewer is great acting, strong characterisation ,a powerful storyline and a dramatic ending. "The Skin Game" (roughly meaning "playing dirty") is a tale of bitter, naked class warfare in an English village between the families of an obnoxious, bourgeois manufacturer and an arrogant aristocrat, over the future economic direction and values of the locale. The bourgois wants to be the undisputed "top dog" in the village ,symbolised by his desire to develop beautiful meadowland into an ugly,smoke-stack factory , while the Squire desperately wants to maintain his dwindling power and status within the community by any means necessary. "The Skin Game" portrays a vicious battle between the noblesse oblige of the landed gentry and the ruthless profiteering of the industrial bourgeoisie for the hearts and minds of the peasantry and working class, which raged for many decades in Britain. As the film progresses, the local squire and his family use increasingly low methods to gain the upper hand over their enemy ,that ironically ends up giving the bourgeois the moral high ground. "The Skin Game" is directed expertly by Hitchcock with the tense storyline building up steadily into an unexpected and poignant finale that is chastening for all concerned.

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Skin Game [1931] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
C.V./Haye, H. France
Manufacturer: Laserlight Digital
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305789800
Release Date: 2000-02-02

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The Skin Game [1931] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Starring: Ivor Barnard , George Bancroft , Edward Chapman , Jill Esmond , and C.V. France
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Manufacturer: Westlake Entertainment Group
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0009OL8B2
Release Date: 2004-02-10

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