When Boys Leave Home

Name: When Boys Leave Home
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Released: May 5, 2022
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Annette Benson, Ben Webster, Ian Hunter, Isabel Jeans, Ivor Novello

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Woolf & Freedman Film Service | Release Date: May 5, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Annette Benson, Ben Webster, Ian Hunter, Isabel Jeans, Ivor Novello, Jerrold Robertshaw, Lilian Braithwaite, Norman McKinnel, Robin Irvine, Sybil Rhoda

Summary: Bound by honor, a successful school boy takes the blame for his roommate's indiscretion. It's all downhill from there.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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The Telegraph Tim Robey

Apr 30, 2025

Novello again, in an underrated road-to-ruin melodrama, plays a public-school rugby champ disgraced when he takes the fall for getting a waitress pregnant. Visual experiments abound and there's a justly famous scene with the curtains of a Paris nightspot being pulled back, exposing its superannuated regulars to the unsparing sunlight. [14 Jul 2012, p.4]

Jake Cole

Apr 30, 2025

Its bizarre melding of moral-panic melodrama with the filmmaker’s signature wrong-man theme is fascinating. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

May 5, 2022

It's directed by Hitchcock with imagination and, especially in the first half, much comedy. Essentially though, this should be filed under 'Novello'. Read full review

Wesley Stenzel

Apr 30, 2025

Downhill is a serviceable film, with an admirably minimal use of title cards, and it effectively shows how difficult life can become for the working class. The ending, however, is so upbeat that it substantially detracts from the sobering pessimism of the preceding movie. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Apr 30, 2025

It's a morality play, full of hopeless tosh. Still, Hitchcock manages to include a hallucination sequence and a highly suggestive spurt from a soda siphon. [12 Jan 2020]

The Times Staff (Not Credited)

Apr 30, 2025

[Hitchcock] has managed to breathe some life into it. He has not made it credible--that would be expecting too much--but he has at least made it seem far less ridiculous than one could possibly have expected. [12 Oct 1927]

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