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Actors: John Stuart, Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Donald Calthrop, Barry Jones, Ann Casson, Henry Caine, Garry Marsh
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Number Seventeen |
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NUMBER SEVENTEEN is a British movie, based on a stage play, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1932.
Four thieves, a policeman, a bum and an innocent girl meet one night in an empty house. One soon understands that the thieves are here to collect a jewel a fifth thief is about to bring into the house and that the policeman stays incognito in order to arrest them. As they don't know each other, the arrival of the crook with the jewel will create several quiproquos before the bad guys leave the house and take the train to the Channel.
The second half of the movie describes a cat and mouse chase between the thieves aboard a train without conductor nor mecanichal engineer and the policeman who follows the train in a bus at top speed.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Number Seventeen |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- white collar fraud/theft
Criminal enemy is...
- stolen goods organization
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- moving train
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 1
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- play
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