Dundee Evening Telegraph (10/Jan/1928) - Around Dundee Cinemas

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• article: Around Dundee Cinemas
• newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph (10/Jan/1928)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Downhill (1927), Isabel Jeans, Ivor Novello, Lilian Braithwaite, Norman McKinnel, Violet Farebrother

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Around Dundee Cinemas

In the list of British films released last year which really can be classified as good the name of Alfred Hitchcock appears as producer opposite two.

That from, a catalogue of extremely small dimensions speaks volumes for the ability of the man who produced "Downhill," the star attraction at the Kinnaird Picture House this week.

Hitchcock has taken a very old theme and dished it up anew, like cold mutton which is much more appetising in rissoles form. He has given us the prodigal son in a new garb, and the hero shines more gloriously than the original, because his fall was due to his kindness of heart when he screened a fellow-student.

Thus the climax, when he returns broken and weary to his father's house and all the things that can be summed up as "fatted calf," is just what is expected, but in various ways the picture has been cleverly thought out along fresh lines.

Several well-known British stars of the legitimate stage — Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans, Norman McKinnell, Lilian Braithwaite, and Violet Fairbrother — are the featured players, the whole cast combining to give an impression of careful and clever direction.