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Number Seventeen

1932, Movie, NR, 63 mins

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A technically compelling Hitchcock film which, while made early in his career and rather crude, displays his genius at creating visual suspense. A lighthearted parody of the thriller, the film centers around a group of jewel thieves who hide out in an abandoned house near a railway. Detective Gilbert Fordyce (Stuart) is trying to get the goods on a gang, and does so with help from a tramp (Lion) and the gang's moll (Grey). Although it was a studio assignment which Hitchcock ... read more leave a comment
Year: 1932
Rated NR

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Cast
Leon M. Lion: Ben Tramp
Anne Grey: Nora Brant
John Stuart: Gilbert Fordyce, Detective
Donald Calthrop: Brant
Barry Jones: Henry Doyle
Ann Casson: Rose Ackroyd

 

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