Number Seventeen
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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Produced by | John Maxwell |
| Written by | Alma Reville Rodney Ackland Alfred Hitchcock Based on a play by Jefferson J. Farjeon |
| Starring | John Stuart Anne Grey Leon M. Lion Donald Calthrop Barry Jones Ann Casson |
| Cinematography | Jack Cox Bryan Langley |
| Distributed by | Wardour Films  |
| Release date(s) | 1932 |
| Running time | 64 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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 films were released in high quality by French media company Canal+ in 2005.[1]
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Production
After arriving back from a trip to the Caribbean with a new idea for a film. He told John Maxwell about but said that Mycroft had a different film for him to do, a filmed version of the film Joseph Farjeon's play Number Seventeen. Hitchcock was unhappy with this as her considered the story as too full of cliches and that he wanted to do a version of John Van Druten's London Wall. The director who eventually got to do London Wall at the time, wanted to direct Number Seventeen.[2]
Hitchcock was assigned writer Rodney Ackland for the film, and decided to take the film as a comedy-oriented thriller.[2]
Cast
- Leon M. Lion as Ben
- Anne Grey as Nora - The Girl
- John Stuart as Barton - The detective
- Donald Calthrop as Brant - Nora's Escort
- Barry Jones as Henry Doyle
- Ann Casson as Rose Ackroyd
- Henry Caine as Mr. Ackroyd
- Garry Marsh as Sheldrake
Reception
On its initial release, audiences reacted to Number 17 with confusion and dissapointment.[2] The film is not often seen nowadays, but continues with generally negative reviews with two critics from Rotten Tomatoes noting the film as "Highly entertaining but practically incomprehensible" and as an "Unsatisfactory early tongue-in-cheek comedy/suspense yarn".[3]
Notes
- ^ Kehr, Dave (February 6, 2007). "New DVDs: Cinema Classics". The New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-07-30.
- ^ a b c Spoto, 1999. pp.129
- ^ "MOVIES / ON DVD / NUMBER 17". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2008-08-03.
References
- Spoto, Donald (1999). The Dark Side Of Genius: The Life Of Alfred Hitchcock. Da Capo Press. ISBN 030680932X.
External links
- Number Seventeen at Allmovie
- Number Seventeen at the Internet Movie Database
- Number Seventeen at Rotten Tomatoes
- Number Seventeen at the TCM Movie Database
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