Downhill (1927 film)

Downhill is a 1927 British silent 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 produced by Gainsborough Pictures at their Islington studios. Downhill was Hitchcock's fourth film as director, but the fifth to be released. Its American alternative title was When Boys Leave Home.

Downhill
Downhill on cover of Kinematograph Weekly, no. 1046, vol. 123
Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
Written byAdaption:
Eliot Stannard
Based onDown Hill
stage play
by Constance Collier
Ivor Novello
Produced byMichael Balcon
C. M. Woolf
StarringIvor Novello
Robin Irvine
Isabel Jeans
Ian Hunter
Violet Farebrother
CinematographyClaude L. McDonnell
Edited byIvor Montagu
Lionel Rich
Production
company
Distributed byWoolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
  • 24 October 1927 (1927-10-24)
Running time
105 minutes (2012 restoration)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles
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