The Skin Game is a 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a play by John Galsworthy and produced by British International Pictures . The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrists and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud between them. After being thought to be in the public domain for decades, the film's rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005. A restored and remastered print of the film was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2007. The plot tells the story of a feud between two affluent families, the long-established ... Hillcrists, played by C.V. France, Helen Haye, and Jill Esmond, and the nouveau riche Hornblowers, played by Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, and Frank Lawton. Two underlying themes in the story are class warfare and the urbanization of the countryside. The Hillcrists are upset by the actions of Mr. Hornblower, whom they consider to be ostentatious and crass, in buying up land, evicting tenant farmers, and surrounding the area with factories.
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