The Skin Game (1931)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 77m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: C. V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, Phyllis Konstam (the film's best performance)
Synopsis:
The gloves come off between a landed family and a nouveau riche industrialist when the latter tries to purchase an ancient tract of forest in order to build more potteries on the squire's doorstep.
Review:
Hitchcock's predilection for frequenting the intelligentsia of the time might explain this adaptation of a John Galsworthy play. The handling is at times static and theatrical, though there are moments when the director relishes the possibilities of meaning between the lines of dialogue, in looks and glances, or in effects such as the repeated double exposure of a man's face coming towards the hapless Chloe. Having said that, it is pretty untypical fare, a moral social drama with only the woman's secret to mark it out thematically as the master's work, that and the transference of guilt onto the hands of the landed family who at first seemed the victims.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 77m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: C. V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, Phyllis Konstam (the film's best performance)
Synopsis:
The gloves come off between a landed family and a nouveau riche industrialist when the latter tries to purchase an ancient tract of forest in order to build more potteries on the squire's doorstep.
Review:
Hitchcock's predilection for frequenting the intelligentsia of the time might explain this adaptation of a John Galsworthy play. The handling is at times static and theatrical, though there are moments when the director relishes the possibilities of meaning between the lines of dialogue, in looks and glances, or in effects such as the repeated double exposure of a man's face coming towards the hapless Chloe. Having said that, it is pretty untypical fare, a moral social drama with only the woman's secret to mark it out thematically as the master's work, that and the transference of guilt onto the hands of the landed family who at first seemed the victims.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 77m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: C. V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, Phyllis Konstam (the film's best performance)
Synopsis:
The gloves come off between a landed family and a nouveau riche industrialist when the latter tries to purchase an ancient tract of forest in order to build more potteries on the squire's doorstep.
Review:
Hitchcock's predilection for frequenting the intelligentsia of the time might explain this adaptation of a John Galsworthy play. The handling is at times static and theatrical, though there are moments when the director relishes the possibilities of meaning between the lines of dialogue, in looks and glances, or in effects such as the repeated double exposure of a man's face coming towards the hapless Chloe. Having said that, it is pretty untypical fare, a moral social drama with only the woman's secret to mark it out thematically as the master's work, that and the transference of guilt onto the hands of the landed family who at first seemed the victims.