Murder/Skin Game Double Bill DVD

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Murder/Skin Game Double Bill

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Release Date: 13 June 2005

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Certificate:	PG

Director:	Alfred Hitchcock

Special Features:	None Listed

Region:	Region 0

Aspect Ratio:	Aspect Ratio 4:3

Number of Disks:	1

Main Language:	English

Description

Murder 1930
This is one of Hitchcock's most interesting 'early' films, the viewer witnesses many of Hitchcock's later trademarks being staged here for the first time.
Sir John Menier (Herbert Marshall) plays a juror in a murder trial of a young woman whom is found next to the corpse and is suffering from amnesia due to shock, Sir John and the rest of the jury find her guilty and she is given the death penalty. Sir John has second thoughts and starts to suspect her boyfriend and begins an investigation of his own, in a race against time can he save the girl.

The Skin Game 1931 meaning a swindle, trick or scam. The movie starts with Hornblower (Edmund Gwenn) buying property from landowner Hillcrest (C.V. France) assuring him that he would not evict the tenant farmers; soon Hornblower evicts them to build factories and warehouses. Hillcrest is outraged and hires an investigator to dig up some dirt on Hornblower's daughter and Hillcrest embarks upon a course of blackmail to tragic ends. The film shows off much of Hitchcock's skill at building suspense and reaches a great climax expected form the master director.