Number Seventeen is a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a stage play by J. Jefferson Farjeon, and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion. 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. After being available only in poor-quality prints for decades, the film was released in high quality by French... media company Canal+ in 2005. Detective Gilbert is searching for a necklace robbed by a gang of thieves. In the beginning, the gang is in a house in London, before going on the run The film starts off with Detective Gilbert arriving at a house marked for sale or rent. The door is unlocked and he wanders in. An unknown person with a candle is wandering about and a dead body is found. When confronted the mysterious person claims innocence of the murdered person.
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| Release date: | 1932 |
| Directed by: | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Runtime: | 64 Minutes |
| Producer: | Leon M. Lion, John Maxwell |
| Editor: | A.C. Hammond |
| Music by: | Adolph Hallis |
| Cinematography: | Jack E. Cox, Bryan Langley |
| Screenplay by: | Alma Reville, Rodney Ackland, Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Jefferson Farjeon |
| Adapted from: | Number Seventeen |
| Genre: | Thriller |