Description

Downhill is a 1927 British silent film drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello, Robin Irvine, and Isabel Jeans, and based on the play Down Hill by Novello and Constance Collier. The film was made by Gainsborough Pictures at their Islington studios. The film is Hitchcock’s fifth film as director. The American alternative title for this film was When Boys Leave Home.

Cast

• Ivor Novello – Roddy Berwick
• Robin Irvine – Tim Wakely
• Isabel Jeans – Julia
• Ian Hunter (actor) – Archie
• Norman McKinnel – Sir Thomas Berwick
• Annette Benson – Mabel
• Sybil Rhoda – Sybil Wakely
• Lilian Braithwaite – Lady Berwick
• Violet Farebrother – The Poet
• Ben Webster (actor) – Dr. Dawson
• Hannah Jones – The Dressmaker
• Jerrold Robertshaw – Reverend Henry Wakely
• Barbara Gott – Madame Michet
• Alf Goddard – The Swede
• J. Nelson – Hibbert