Alfred Hitchcok - Numero 17 (1932) [DVD5 PAL]

Alfred Hitchcok - Numero 17 (1932) [DVD5 PAL]


Country of manufacture United Kingdom
Year 1932
Duration 63 min
Technical data B / N
Drama genre, thriller
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Subject Joseph Jefferson Farjeon

Interpreters and characters

Leon M. Lion: Ben, the bum
Anne Gray: Nora, the fake deaf mute
John Stuart: Gilbert Barton, the detective
Donald Calthrop: Brant, a thief
Barry Jones: Henry Doyle, the fake nephew
Ann Casson: Rose Ackroyd
Henry Caine: Mr Ackroyd, the policeman
Garry Marsh: Sheldrake, the gang leader
Herbert Langley: Guard on the train


Number Seventeen (Number Seventeen) is a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The subject of the film is based on a comedy, itself inspired by a novel by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon. It was the production house that imposed it on Hitchcock who, once again forced to make a film he hadn't chosen (he wanted to make the film version of John Druten's London Wall that the producers entrusted to another director) and judging the drama " a mass of stereotypes "he thought of taking revenge by making a parody of a detective film.