Downhill

Roddy (Ivor Novello), having taken the blame for his less-wealthy school pal for getting a local waitress pregnant, has now been rejected by his father, and falls on hard times, taking work on the stage, where Ian Hunter and Isabel Jeans are stars, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Downhill, 1927.

Director Alfred Hitchcock opens with rugby at an exclusive public school, Ivor Novello as star Roddy, from a play he co-wrote, Norman McKinnel his aristrocat father, in Downhill, 1927.

Top student-athlete Roddy (Ivor Novello) and best school pal Tim (Robin Irvine) have both been teased into a visit by local waitress Mabel (Annette Benson), her evil intentions not yet revealed, early in director Alfred Hitchcock’s Downhill, 1927.