When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
Cast
Ivor Novello
Roddy Berwick
Ben Webster
Dr. Dawson
Norman McKinnel
Sir Thomas Berwick
Robin Irvine
Tim Wakeley
Jerrold Robertshaw
The Rev. Henry Wakeley
Sybil Rhoda
Sybil Wakeley
Annette Benson
Mabel
Lilian Braithwaite
Lady Berwick
Isabel Jeans
Julia
Ian Hunter
Archie
Hannah Jones
Dresser
Barbara Gott
Madame Michet
Violet Farebrother
Poetess
Alf Goddard
Sailor
Constance Collier
Dance Hall Lady with Purse (uncredited)
Daisy Jackson
The Seductive Waitress (uncredited)
J. Nelson
Hibbert (uncredited)
Crew
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Eliot Stannard
Scenario Writer
Lionel Rich
Editor
Ivor Montagu
Editor
Claude L. McDonnell
Director of Photography
Frank Mills
Assistant Director
Michael Balcon
Producer, Presenter
C.M. Woolf
Producer, Presenter
Bertram Evans
Production Design, Art Direction
Constance Collier
Original Story
Ivor Novello
Original Story
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