Downhill (1927 film)

Downhill
Downhill on cover of Kinematograph Weekly, no. 1046, vol. 123[1]
Directed by	Alfred Hitchcock
Written by	Adaption: Eliot Stannard[1]
Based on	Down Hill stage play by Constance Collier Ivor Novello
Produced by	Michael Balcon C. M. Woolf
Starring	Ivor Novello Robin Irvine Isabel Jeans Ian Hunter Violet Farebrother
Cinematography	Claude L. McDonnell
Edited by	Ivor Montagu Lionel Rich
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date	24 October 1927 (1927-10-24)
Running time	105 minutes (2012 restoration)[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent film English intertitles

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.^[1]