Adapted by Hitchcock into a script with Alma Reville from the successful stage play by John Galsworthy, The Skin Game presents a powerful and convincing portrayal of industrial encroachment on the rural gentry with a mix of long-take dialogue scenes and montage.  

The rivalry between a gentrified family and a wealthy tradesman turns to tragedy when the former use their discovery of the dark past of the tradesman’s daughter-in-law to thwart his building plans. Edmund Gwenn and Helen Haye reprised their roles from the 1921 silent version.