Episode #345

Downhill

(1927)

Roddy…can you ever forgive me? 

Alfred takes on adapting a play for his fourth film release (fifth if you count the silent film we’ve since lost to the vagaries of time…but who’s counting?). Ivor Norvello plays Roddy, the young man who covers for his friend, and then spends a lifetime paying for it. Sounds like a great premise! Let’s see how this one plays out…