The Skin Game

Ancestral pride v. Industrial progress.

A rich family, the Hillcrests, is fighting against the speculator, Hornblower, who sends away poor farmers to build factories on their lands. When Mrs. Hillcrest finds out that Chloe Hornblower was a prostitute, she uses this secret to blackmail the speculator and force him to stop his business.

Direction

Alfred Hitchcock

Screenplay

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John Galsworthy

Alfred Hitchcock

Alma Reville