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Number Seventeen is a 1932 British comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion.
Number 17: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart, Donald Calthrop. A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number. Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers. 17 was described at MIT as "the least random number", according to the Jargon File.
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 ...
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Number Seventeen is a 1932 British comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion. The film, which is based on the 1925 burlesque stage play Number Seventeen written by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, concerns a group of criminals who commit a jewel robbery and hide their loot in an old house ...
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
Number Seventeen is not one of Hitchcock’s most iconic films, but it is certainly an interesting entry in his filmography and one that deserves to be talked about more. The richly immersive and haunting atmosphere alone makes it a worthy addition to any October watchlist.
