Number seventeen [dvd] / directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; scenario Alfred Hitchcock & Rodney Ackland ; from the play "Number seventeen" by J. Jefferson Farjeon ; musical score, A. Hallis.
Publisher number: OPTD0726 | OptimumSeries: Early Hitchcock collection | Early Hitchcock collectionPublication details: [s.l.] : Optimum Releasing, c2007.Description: 1 DVD (61 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:- Number 17 [dvd]
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- Credits: Alma Reville also credited with screenplay on container but not in opening credits ; produced by Leon M. Lion and John Maxwell.
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DVD | Fischer Hall Library Storage | Contact the librarian. (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | V1768 |
A DVD release of the film produced in 1932.
Credits: Alma Reville also credited with screenplay on container but not in opening credits ; produced by Leon M. Lion and John Maxwell.
Cast: Leon M. Lion (Ben), Anne Grey (The girl), John Stuart (The detective), Donald Calthrop (Brant), Barry Jones (Henry Doyle), Ann Casson (Rose Ackroyd), Henry Caine (Mr Ackroyd), Garry Marsh (Sheldrake).
A detective tracks a group of criminals to a deserted house above a rail depot that they are using to escape to the continent. According to biographer Donald Spoto, Hitchcock considered the source material "a bundle of clichés and so with writers Rodney Ackland and Alma Reville set about sending up the genre, climaxing the film with the chase to end all chases between a bus and a train.
UK cert. U
DVD region 2.