Number Seventeen (1932) Alfred Hitchcock Thriller Jewelry Heist Full Film

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 film's title being derived from the house's street number. An outsider stumbles onto this plot and intervenes with the help of a neighbour, a police officer's daughter.

Hitchcock returned to England from a trip to the Caribbean with a new idea for a film. He told John Maxwell about it but said that Mycroft had a different film for him to do, a filmed version of the film Joseph Farjeon's play Number Seventeen. Hitchcock was unhappy with this as he considered the story to be too full of cliches and that he wanted to do a version of John Van Druten's London Wall. The director who eventually got to do London Wall at the time, wanted to direct Number Seventeen.[2]
Hitchcock was assigned writer Rodney Ackland for the film, and decided to take the film as a comedy-oriented thriller.[2]
Hitchcock later stated in the book Hitchcock/Truffaut as this film being "A Disaster".
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