---
title: 'Downhill (1927)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alfred Hitchcock'
released: '1927-10-24'
runtime_minutes: 80
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/downhill-1927'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017825/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Downhill (1927)

1927 · 80 min · Drama · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Ivor Novello](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivor-novello), [Constance Collier](https://cinepixo.com/people/constance-collier), [Eliot Stannard](https://cinepixo.com/people/eliot-stannard)
- **Director:** [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- **Producer:** [Michael Balcon](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-balcon), [C. M. Woolf](https://cinepixo.com/people/c-m-woolf)
- **Editor:** [Ivor Montagu](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivor-montagu)

## Cast

- [Robin Irvine](https://cinepixo.com/people/robin-irvine)
- [Ben Webster](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-webster)
- [Lilian Braithwaite](https://cinepixo.com/people/lilian-braithwaite)
- [Isabel Jeans](https://cinepixo.com/people/isabel-jeans)
- [Ian Hunter](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-hunter)
- [Ivor Novello](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivor-novello)
- [Violet Farebrother](https://cinepixo.com/people/violet-farebrother)

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