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Number 17
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Title: Number 17 (1932)
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Leon M. Lion | ... | |
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Nora - the Girl
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John Stuart | ... |
Barton - the Detective
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Donald Calthrop | ... |
Brant - Nora's Escort
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Henry Doyle
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Ann Casson | ... |
Rose Ackroyd
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Henry Caine | ... |
Mr. Ackroyd
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Garry Marsh | ... |
Sheldrake
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Detective Gilbert is searching for a necklace robbed by a gang of thieves. In the beginning, the gang is in a house in London, then they are running away from police. It will not be easy for the detective to recover the jewel. Written by Claudio Sandrini <pulp99@geocities.com>
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detective | necklace | pretending to be unconscious | train whistle | handcuffs |Parents Guide:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
18 July 1932 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Ben: Oh! Oh, Gawd! Oh, Gawd! Oh, Gawd! Oh!
Fordyce/Barton: How do you feel? Now, where's that candle? Here, have some of this.
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(uncredited)
Music by Harry Shalson
Lyrics by John Malvern
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This was Alfred Hitchcock's last film as director for British International Pictures, though he made one more film for them as producer: Lord Camber's Ladies, directed by Benn W. Levy. See more »Goofs
Barton and Nora's hands are tied to the railing behind them, but after they fall backwards through it they're hanging with their hands in front of them. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Ben: Oh! Oh, Gawd! Oh, Gawd! Oh, Gawd! Oh!
Fordyce/Barton: How do you feel? Now, where's that candle? Here, have some of this.
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Soundtracks
"I Don't Need a Television"(uncredited)
Music by Harry Shalson
Lyrics by John Malvern
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The plot of this early Gothic/comic thriller by Hitchcock will make your head spin. It is about as convoluted as possible, with multiple cases of mistaken identity, role-switching, cons and counter-cons. A detective has gotten a lead on a very expensive necklace which has disappeared, and expects to find it, along with the perpetrators, in an old, somewhat decrepit house. A couple of innocent bystanders wander in and find one of these characters knocked unconscious, and the rest eventually begin to pour in through the front door bit by bit, or through the ceiling, as the case may be.
Eventually, the entire cast will end up in a mad chase between a runaway train carrying the bad guys and a bus commandeered by the good guys (or so it seems).
Thoough not one of Hitchcock's best early films, Number 17 is certainly amusing and contains a lot of intentional comedy that many critics seem to want to ignore, keeps a steady, if hectic, pace and boasts some pretty affective use of miniatures for the 1930s. Recommended for fans of pre-noir thrillers and British comedy.