Number Seventeen

 

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

The Production Team

Director: Géza von Bolváry.
Producer: Hermann Fellner and Josef Somlo.
Script: Benno Vigny and Adolf Lantz. (from the play by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon)
Cinematography: Eduard Hoesch.
Art Direction: Oscar Friedrich Werndorff.

The Cast

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

Plot Synopsis

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.