Number 17

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Number 17

1932,

1h 5m,

Mystery & Thriller/

Comedy

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73%

11 Reviews

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22%

1,000+ Ratings

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11 Reviews

22%

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In an empty London house, a hobo named Ben (Leon M. Lion) looks for shelter yet instead finds a corpse. When Detective Fordyce (John Stuart) shows up, he questions Ben, but is interrupted when a girl (Ann Casson) falls through the roof. Her father has vanished, and she's received an inscrutable telegram that mentions both the house and a missing necklace. Soon more suspicious characters turn up, all looking for the necklace, and none of them who they claim to be.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Mar 20, 2012

A peculiar and neglected early Hitchcock stage adaptation.

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Time Out

Mar 20, 2012

The plotting is half-baked and the special effects are so crude that they make the back projection in Marnie look like the last word in verisimilitude.

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Anne Brodie

What She Said

Jan 7, 2022

Overall, it's fun, it captures a moment in time and it's just suspenseful and nutty enough.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Dec 11, 2021

3/4

By most measurable standards, it's not a very good movie, but fans will want to take a peek.

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Lauren Humphries-Brooks

Citizen Dame

Dec 10, 2021

Number Seventeen's weirdness is quite entertaining, a great director playing around in a sandbox full of tropes and genuinely creepy images.

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Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

Dec 13, 2019

Brilliantly photographed early Hitchcock.

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Anakin R

Sep 14, 2018

Maybe it was just the film transfer, but I found this movie a little hard to follow. It was difficult to tell who was saying what and which character was which. Plus, there were a couple twists and turns that didn't make sense. I feel like this Hitchcock piece could have been a bit more polished.

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Leia L

Nov 14, 2017

Sadly hardly likeable. Difficult to follow, typical of the "new sound"/talkie period of Hitchcock, so, without question, this film is definitely passable. Should mention this is a step back to stage adaption film.

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Abraham S

Jan 4, 2017

It starts off as a potentially interesting fever dream involving elements of The 39 Steps, creepypastas and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari...but by the halfway mark, it's just a poorly edited mess with some failing tongue-in-cheek humor.

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Ron M

Dec 2, 2012

Ambitious. Despite its many flaws it still entertains.

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Synopsis

In an empty London house, a hobo named Ben (Leon M. Lion) looks for shelter yet instead finds a corpse. When Detective Fordyce (John Stuart) shows up, he questions Ben, but is interrupted when a girl (Ann Casson) falls through the roof. Her father has vanished, and she's received an inscrutable telegram that mentions both the house and a missing necklace. Soon more suspicious characters turn up, all looking for the necklace, and none of them who they claim to be.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: John Maxwell
Screenwriter: Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Rodney Ackland
Production Co: British International Pictures
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 5, 2014
Runtime: 1h 5m

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