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Number Seventeen
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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Written by | Alma Reville Rodney Ackland Alfred Hitchcock |
| Starring | John Stuart Anne Grey Leon M. Lion |
| Cinematography | John J. Cox Bryan Langley |
| Distributed by | Wardour Films  |
| Release date(s) | 1932 |
| Running time | 63 min. |
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Number Seventeen is a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a stage play by J. Jefferson Fargeon, and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion. The film is widely regarded to be one of Hitchcock's lesser films; indeed, the filmmaker himself considered it to be "a disaster", as documented by François Truffaut in his famous interview book, Hitchcock (1962).
The film is about a group of criminals who committed a jewel robbery and put their money in an old house over a railway leading to the English Channel, the film's title being derived from the house's street number. An outsider stumbles onto this plot and intervenes with the help of a neighbour, a police officer's daughter.
Many elements of subsequent Hitchcock films, such as a large, dramatic stairway, shadows, dramatic music, and chase scenes involving a railway, are present in this film in an early form. So is the plot itself, where a seemingly-ordinary man becomes involved in intrigue in which he had originally played no role whatever but in which he is now totally immersed. The hero and heroine immediately develop a romantic attachment, as happens very often in later Hitchcock films.
After being thought in the public domain for decades, the film's rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005.
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