The Skin Game Page #2
- TV-G
- Year:
- 1931
- 85 min
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There's generally
some gold where I am.
I daresay you wish
there's been no...
keep their word, mr. Hornblower.
Amy.
Never mind, Hillcrist. Takes
more than that to upset me.
You promised me, you know,
not to disturb the tenancies.
Yes, well, I've come to
tell you that I've got to.
I wasn't expecting to have
the need when I bought.
I thought the duke would
sell me a bit down there,
but devil if he will.
And now I must have those
cottages for my workmen.
I've got important
works, you know.
The Jackmans have their
importance, too, sir.
Their heart's
in that cottage.
Well, if you think so
much of these Jackmans,
why not build them
a cottage yourselves?
You've got the space.
That's beside the point.
You promised me, and I sold
on that understanding.
I bought on the
understanding
I'd get some more
land from the dukes.
That's nothing
to do with me.
Ah, you'll find
that it has,
'cause I'm going
to have those cottages.
Well, I call it
simply...
now, now,
look here, Hillcrist.
You've not had occasion
to understand men like me.
I've got the guts, and I've got the money
and I don't
sit still on it.
e I believe in meself.
I've no use for sentiment,
that sort of thing.
Why, 40 of your Jackmans
aren't worth me little finger.
Of all the blatant things
I ever heard said...
well, as we are
speaking plainly...
I've been thinking
you want the village run
your old-fashioned way,
and I want it
run mine.
I'll fancy there's not
room for the two of us here.
When are you going?
Oh, never fear.
I'm not going.
I'm told that you
wish to buy the centry
and put up some more
of your chimneys there,
regardless of the fact
that you'd utterly ruin
a house we've had
for generations
and all of our
pleasure here.
Oh ho!
Is it true
about the centry?
Gospel true.
Well, if you
want to know,
my son Charlie is buying
it this very minute.
Ah, he's with
the old lady.
She wants to sell.
And she'll get her
price, whatever it is.
If this isn't a skin game,
mr. Hornblower,
I don't know what is.
Oh!
Huh!
You've got a very
nice expression there.
Skin game.
Well, bad words
break no bones,
and they're wonderful
for hardening the heart.
If it wasn't for
a lady's presence,
I could give you
a specimen or two.
That needn't stop you,
I'm sure, mr. Hornblower.
Oh, and I don't know that it need.
You're an obstruction,
the likes of you.
You're in my path.
G. And anyone in my path
doesn't stay there lon
or if he does, he
stays there on my terms,
the centry, where I need them.
It'll do you a power of good to
know that you're not almighty.
This is being neighborly?
And how have you tried
being neighborly to me?
Eh?
If I haven't a wife,
I've got a daughter-in-law
have you called
on her, ma'am?
No. No, I'm new,
and you're an old family.
You don't like me.
You think I'm
a pushy man.
I go to chapel,
and you don't like that.
I make things and I sell
them. You don't like that.
I buy land, and you
don't like that.
It threatens the view
from your windows.
Well, I don't like you,
and I don't want to put up
with your attitude.
You've had things
your own way too long,
and now you're not
gonna have them any longer.
That's a declaration
of war.
Oh ho ho!
Now, look here,
Hillcrist.
I don't object
to you personally.
You seem to me
a poor sort of creature
that's bound to get left with
your gout and your dignity.
But of course, you can make
yourself pretty disagreeable
before you're done.
Now I want to be
I'm full of plans.
I'm gonna stand
for parliament.
I'm gonna make this
a prosperous place.
I'm a good-natured man if
you'll treat me as such.
Now, you take me on as a
neighbor... and all that,
and I'll manage withou
t chimneys in the centry.
Here, is it a bargain?
Not if you'd bought
Your ways are not mine.
I'll have nothing
to do with you.
Really?
Is that so?
Very well.
Now you are going
to learn some things,
and it's time you did.
Do you realize that I'm
Eh?
I'm at... up hill.
The works are here.
Here's Longmeadow.
Here's the centry,
that I've just bought.
So my goods will be running
right round you.
How will you like that
for a country place?
Eh?
That's not a bit sporting
of you, mr. Hornblower.
Well...
you should hear both sides
before you say that, missy.
There isn't anothe r side
to turning out the Jackmans
after you promised...
oh, dear me, yes. Why, they
don't matter a row of gingerbread
compared to the schemes I've got
for bettering this neighborhood.
I had been standing
up for you.
Now I won't.
Oh, dear, dear.
What'll become of me, eh?
I won't say anything
about the other thing,
because I think it's
but to turn poor people out
Hoity me!
Jill!
Well, what's the good?
Life's too short
for rows.
Now, now, look here.
You'll just have to learn that a man
who's worked as I have, risen as I have,
and who knows the world is the proper
judge of what's right and wrong.
I'll answer to god for my
actions, not to you, young lady.
Poor god!
You blasphemous
young thing.
Jill, I wish you'd kindly not talk.
Oh.
I don't think I want to say
anything more to you, Hornblower.
Good morning.
All right.
We'll play what you call
a skin game, Hillcrist,
without gloves on.
We won't spare each other.
You look out for yourselves.
By god, after this morning,
I mean business.
Where's my hat?
Good-bye.
Say that I'm here,
will you?
Dawker, sir.
Well... Dawker?
Safe, for the moment.
The old lady will
put it up to auction.
Couldn't get her
to budge from that.
Said she didn't want
to be unneighborly.
Ask me, it's money
she smells.
Can I see you alone for
a moment, please, ma'am?
It's rather important.
In the study, Dawker.
I bet Dawker's
up to no good.
I can tell
by his expression.
I don't like Dawker,
father.
He's so common.
My dear, we can't all
be uncommon.
And he's got lots
of dough.
I bet they've got
some scheme on
that'll make you do things
you don't approve of
if you don't look out.
Mother's fearfully bitter
when she gets her knife in.
If old Hornblower'
s disgusting,
there's no reason
why we should be.
So you think
I'm capable?
That's nice, Jill.
No, no, darling.
But I want to
warn you solemnly
you you're fighting fa
no matter what
she and Dawker do.
Jill, I never saw you
so serious.
Well...
hey!
Sorry.
I was just beginning
to enjoy myself,
now everything's going
to be bitter and beastly
with mother
in that mood.
That horrible old man.
Oh, daddy, I...
don't let them
make you horrid.
You're such a darling.
How's your gout,
ducky?
Better, a lot better.
There, you see?
That shows.
It's going to be half
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