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 on cover of Kinematograph Weekly, no. 1046, vol. 123
Ivor Novello was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.
Ivor Novello
Novello's birthplace, in Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff
Bobbie Andrews in 1921
Nina Vanna and Novello in The Man Without Desire (1923)