
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
Ivor Montagu
Editor
Lionel Rich
Editor
Claude L. McDonnell
Director of Photography
Frank Mills
Assistant Director
C.M. Woolf
Producer, Presenter

Michael Balcon
Producer, Presenter
Bertram Evans
Production Design, Art Direction

Ivor Novello
Original Story

Constance Collier
Original Story
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