Downhill
A College Hero round whom is woven a picture of Love and Treachery.
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- Adventure
- Drama
Overview
When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
Keywords
- boarding school
- loyalty
- father son conflict
- gigolo
- silent film
- stage show
- downward spiral
- headmaster
- misfortune
- expulsion
- expelled from school
- stage show performer
- fall guy
- wrongly punished
- dancehall
- paid dance companion
- fall from grace
- fallen man
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 24, 1927
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Gainsborough Pictures
- Cast
- Ivor Novello,Ben Webster,Norman McKinnel,Robin Irvine,Jerrold Robertshaw,Sybil Rhoda,Annette Benson,Lilian Braithwaite,Isabel Jeans,Ian Hunterand 7 more
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Producer
- C.M. Woolf,Michael Balcon
- Cinematography
- Claude L. McDonnell
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0017825