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Number 17

1932

1h 5m

Mystery & Thriller

Comedy

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73%

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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

03/20/2012

A peculiar and neglected early Hitchcock stage adaptation.

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Time Out

03/20/2012

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

01/07/2022

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

12/11/2021

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

12/10/2021

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

12/13/2019

Brilliantly photographed early Hitchcock.

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Minnie C.

@belledujour Nov 29

I enjoyed this one. Yeah it’s not Hitchcock best but it’s charming. The beginning drags on but the ending conclusion kept my interest. Lots of twists and turns even if it is sort of predictable

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Steve D

12/30/2023

One of Hitch's worst.

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harwee h

12/20/2023

Passable Hitchcock fare

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georgan g

09/15/2020

This plot moves FAST! Glad I had read up on it, plus I stopped it a couple of times to be sure who was who.

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joel h

09/14/2018

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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11/14/2017

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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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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