Number 17

1932

Crime / Mystery / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 22% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 22% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 5939 5.9K

black and white runaway train macguffin stolen necklace runaway bus

Plot summary

A gang of jewel thieves hides out in an abandoned London house after a robbery, unaware that a detective is among them in disguise.

Director

Alfred Hitchcock Photo
Alfred Hitchcock

Top cast

Barry Jones Photo
Barry Jones as Henry Doyle
Anne Grey Photo
Anne Grey as Nora Brant - the Girl
Pearl Hay Photo
Pearl Hay as Minor Role
Herbert Langley Photo
Herbert Langley as The Guard on Train
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584.66 MB
866*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 3 min
Seeds 1
1.06 GB
1300*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 3 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Hitchcock's early movie from British period with thrilling ending chase in scale models

The picture deals with a deserted house in London as scenario where we find a suspecting hobo (Leon Lion , film producer and he played similar role at stage) , a young girl called Nora (Grey), a detective and a gang of thieves involving the robbery of a necklace . This early British film (shot before ¨39 steps¨) contains humor , tension , action with superb ending pursuit and results to be quite entertaining . It's a comical thriller with parody elements and suspense appears threatening and lurking in every stairs , corridor , hallway and rooms . The movie gets a Germanic expressionist atmosphere in lights and shades creating dark scenarios . Runtime is short-time for that reason is quickly seen ; one hour , approximately . As the famous interview Truffaut-Hitchcock , he said this film was a disaster , he contracted several cats for shooting scenes at home but they wander and was impossible to control them for its numerous proprietaries . The film has various Hitchcock touches as well as the ¨McGuffin¨ , this time seem to be the robbed necklace ; furthermore , the overlong and exciting chase sequence of a train and a bus realized with a maquettes and miniatures . Thirty four years later , Hitchcock will repeat bus pursuit in ¨Torn curtain¨ . His screenwriter Alma Reville ,Hitchcock's wife , wrote a confusing and no well developed screenplay . The following Hitchcock film would be his first great success :¨The man who knew too much¨.
Reviewed by skl2003 6 / 10

Much better than I expected

After seeing "Blackmail" and "Murder" I wasn't expecting very much of "Number Seventeen". I was very pleasantly surprised. It's certainly not up to the standard of Hitchcock's later work, but it's a moderately enjoyable film both in itself and for the insight it offers into Hitchcock's development as a director.The plot is rather complex and can be a bit difficult to follow at times. But nearly every element - concept, plot, characterization, and so forth - is superior to his earlier work. There are some action scenes toward the end that are strikingly exciting for a movie from 1932. My favorite part of the movie, however, is the first third or so, where Hitchcock achieves a perfect "spooky old house" atmosphere.If this were a long movie, I would hesitate to recommend it to anyone but Hitchcock fanatics. But it's only 63 minutes - if you can find it, take the hour and watch it. At worst, you'll learn some things about Hitchcock's developing technique. At best, you'll discover a highly enjoyable little movie.
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