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An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
Rodney Ackland
- Man at Auction
- (uncredited)
Ivor Barnard
- Man at Auction
- (uncredited)
Wally Patch
- Van Driver
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe title comes from a slang phrase for "an unscrupulous business operation." Although this movie is British, the term is considered American and dates back to just after the American Civil War (1865-1870). It is not to be confused with the similar-sounding monetary aphorism, "to have skin in the game," which refers to someone who has invested heavily in a business deal or wager.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Mr. Hillcrist: What is it that gets loose when you start a fight, and makes you what you think you're not? Begin as you may, it ends in this skin game! Skin game! When we began this fight, we'd clean hands. Are they clean now? What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock (2009)
- SoundtracksHabanera
(1875) (uncredited)
from "Carmen"
Music by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Excerpt whistled by Jill Esmond
Featured review
Technical crudities, print/sound deficiencies and dated acting styles taken into consideration, "Skin Game" still has innovative (for the time) camera techniques and thematic ambiguity (who is right and who is wrong? Who are the true villains of the story?) and is generally better than other, more "typical" Hitchcock films of the period, like "Murder!" from 1930.Edmund Gwenn is terrific and Phyllis Constam is quite sexy. (**1/2)
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- Also known as
- Juego sucio
- Filming locations
- Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK(Studio, destroyed during World War II and later rebuilt)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
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