The Skin Game (1931)
Edmund Gwenn: Mr. Hornblower
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Quotes
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Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : All right, we'll play what ye call a skin game, Hillcrist, without gloves on; we won't spare each other. Ye look out for yourselves, for, begod, after this morning I mean business.
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Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : Trick? Why you had an agent bid for you. I had an agent bid for me. Only you're agent bid at the beginning and mine bid at the end. Now, what's the trick in that, eh? Huh? What did you call it? A skin game.
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Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : As for you, Missy, you leave my boy alone.
Jill : Here, here, may I spit in his eye or something?
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Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : Why, I'm going on with as little consideration as if you were a family of black beetles. Good afternoon.
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Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : I've had a note - from that woman.
[shows Chloe the note]
Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : Well, what's the meaning of it, eh? Is it shear impudence or lunacy or what?
Chloe Hornblower : I don't know.
Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : Aw, Chloe, if there's anything, you better tell me. Forewarned is forearmed, you know.
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Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : Oh, the bitter snobs!
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Mrs. Hillcrist : Are you familiar with the law of divorce, Mr. Hornblower?
Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : No, I'm not. Well, that is, I...
Mrs. Hillcrist : You know that misconduct is required. And I suppose you've heard that cases are arranged.
Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : Well, I know its all very shocking. What about it?
Mrs. Hillcrist : When cases are arranged, Mr. Hornblower, the man who is to be divorced, often visits a hotel with a strange woman. I'm extremely sorry to have to say that your daughter-in-law, before her marriage, was in the habit of being employed as such a woman.
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Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : You're lying to save your skins! How dare you tell me such monstrosities!
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Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : Now then, let's have this impudent story torn to rags.
Chloe Hornblower : What story?
Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : That you, my dear, were a woman who, oh it's too shocking, I don't know how to tell you!
Chloe Hornblower : Go on.
Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : Were a woman that went with men to get them their divorce.
