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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 A peculiar and neglected early Hitchcock stage adaptation. Mar 20, 2012 Full Review Time Out 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. Mar 20, 2012 Full Review Anne Brodie What She Said Overall, it's fun, it captures a moment in time and it's just suspenseful and nutty enough. Jan 7, 2022 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy By most measurable standards, it's not a very good movie, but fans will want to take a peek. Rated: 3/4 Dec 11, 2021 Full Review Lauren Humphries-Brooks Citizen Dame Number Seventeen's weirdness is quite entertaining, a great director playing around in a sandbox full of tropes and genuinely creepy images. Dec 10, 2021 Full Review Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television Brilliantly photographed early Hitchcock. Dec 13, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D One of Hitch's worst. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 12/30/23 Full Review harwee h Passable Hitchcock fare Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/20/23 Full Review georgan g 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. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review joel h 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. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Alfred Hitchcock

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Leon M. Lion

Ben

Anne Grey

Nora

John Stuart

Barton

Donald Calthrop

Brant

Bart Jones

Henry Doyle

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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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