Number 17

1932

1 hr. 5 min.

Mystery & Thriller

Comedy

List

73%

11 Reviews

Tomatometer

22%

1,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

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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Steve D

One of Hitch's worst.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/30/23

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harwee h

Passable Hitchcock fare

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/20/23

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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

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zed b

Loved the train sequence but overall the film has not dated well.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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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

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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

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Leon M. Lion

Ben

Anne Grey

Nora

John Stuart

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Donald Calthrop

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Bart Jones

Henry Doyle

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

A peculiar and neglected early Hitchcock stage adaptation.

Mar 20, 2012

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

Brilliantly photographed early Hitchcock.

Dec 13, 2019

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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
Screenwriter: Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Rodney Ackland
Production Co: British International Pictures
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Original Language: English (United Kingdom)
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 5, 2014