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An excellent silent film from Hitchcock. Ivor Novello stars as a pupil at an English boarding school. His best friend gets a local waitress pregnant and Ivor takes the fall for him. The rest, as the title implies, is downhill. Toward the end Ivor is working as a gigolo at a seedy bar in France. It is melodrama but it's filmed, and framed, like a suspense thriller, and it has the creative energy of The Ring, Hitchcock's boxing film made immediately afterwards.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Downhill (1927)
An excellent silent film from Hitchcock. Ivor Novello stars as a pupil at an English boarding school. His best friend gets a local waitress pregnant and Ivor takes the fall for him. The rest, as the title implies, is downhill. Toward the end Ivor is working as a gigolo at a seedy bar in France. It is melodrama but it's filmed, and framed, like a suspense thriller, and it has the creative energy of The Ring, Hitchcock's boxing film made immediately afterwards.
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