Number Seventeen

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 films title being derived from the houses street number. An outsider stumbles onto this plot and intervenes with the help of a neighbour, a police officers daughter.

Detective Barton is searching for a necklace stolen by a gang of thieves. In the beginning, the gang is in a house in London, before going on the run.The film starts off with Detective Barton John Stuart arriving at a house marked for sale or rent. The door is unlocked and he wanders in. An unknown person with a candle is wandering about and a dead body is found. When confronted the mysterious person claims innocence of the murdered person. Barton who introduces himself as Forsythe asks the stranger what he has in his pockets handkerchief, string, sausage, picture of a child, half a cigarette, before the shadow of a hand is shown reaching for a doorknob. The stranger who later introduces himself as Ben searches the body of the dead person and finds handcuffs and a gun which he takes. ........

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