From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 11:16:35 AM UTC-4, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 05:17:00 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn    
   >  wrote:    
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   > >The Skin Game (1931) Alfred "The Master of Suspense" Hitchcock got his   
   Public Domain movies thrown into a horror megapack. No, the title is not some   
   predecessor to "Psycho." It's not a horror or suspense, or even mystery,   
   although there are some    
   family secrets, and a tense auction scene. This is just a note.   
      
   > I've always taken it to be about the decline of the Entitled Classes    
   > and the rise of the Grubby Industrialists. JRRT would have been    
   > rooting for the Entitled Classes.    
      
   Ah, the "Singing in the Rain" model of sf film?  Then I would want more of a   
   focus on "how is it done" rather than the "how does it feel" we get.  Was   
   _Ivanhoe_ the book that surprisingly had a lot about the Angles displacing the   
   Saxons or whatever?  The    
   next time this comes up I will say, "'The Skin Game' is _Ivanhoe_ with diesel   
   engines."   
      
   > Which may have made it (or the play it was based on) topical at the    
   > time it was done.   
      
   See also "The Magnificent Ambersons"(1942), although that was set in America,   
   and a generation previously.  (It also doesn't need pointing out that "Skin   
   Game" wasn't a "Hitchcock film" the way later movies would be, and the way   
   "Ambersons" was (or, as    
   they say is not) a "Welles film.")   
      
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   -Jack   
      
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