{"id":35500,"date":"2024-03-26T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35500"},"modified":"2024-03-26T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:51:18","slug":"number-17-directed-by-alfred-hitchcock-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35500","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Number 17&#8221; directed by Alfred Hitchcock \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z032624zview_number17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"551\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Number 17 <\/strong><\/em>(1932)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Rodney Ackland <\/strong>based on <em>Number Seventeen<\/em> by<strong> Joseph Jefferson Farjeon<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart <\/strong>and <strong>Ann Casson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A detective enters an old, dark house late one evening.\u00a0 Clues from a diamond necklace robbery have led him there. Once inside the detective discovers a man who claims he&#8217;s homeless and was looking for shelter for the evening.\u00a0 The two discover the body of a man who was recently murdered.\u00a0 Suddenly a woman falls from above!\u00a0 As they question her, two additional men and a woman enter the house.\u00a0 Some, maybe eveand ryone is involved in the diamond necklace theft.\u00a0 Expect twists and not all will survive to the end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alfred Hitchcock wasn&#8217;t a fan of <em>Number 17<\/em>.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t a film that he wanted to make.\u00a0 <em>Number 17<\/em> was adapted from a stage play.\u00a0 Although conceived as a comedy-thriller, the end result fell short of expectations.\u00a0 Although Hitchcock considered it a &#8220;disaster&#8221; it&#8217;s not as bad as that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hitchcock has no cameo in this one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Number 17 <\/strong><\/em>(1932) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z032624zview_number17b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number 17 (1932) Director: \u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay: Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Rodney Ackland based on Number Seventeen by Joseph Jefferson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35503,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35500\/revisions\/35503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}