February 10, 2012

Films

Number Seventeen – 1928 | 72 mins | Crime | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Number Seventeen

Remade four years later by Alfred Hitchcock to greater effect, this is the first screen adaptation of J.J. Fargeon’s play about an itinerant salesman (Guy Newall) who with the assistance of a reformed female crook, helps the police arrest a gang of jewel thieves.

Production Team

Géza von Bolváry: Director
Oscar Friedrich Werndorff: Art Direction
Eduard Hoesch: Cinematography
Hermann Fellner: Producer
Josef Somlo: Producer
Benno Vigny: Script
Adolf Lantz: Script

Cast

Lien Deyers: Elsie Ackroyd
Fritz Greiner: Shelldrake
Ernst Neicher: Harold Brant
Guy Newall: Ben
Craighall Sherry: Sam Ackroyd
Fred Solm: Henry Jobber



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