NUMBER 17 (1932) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Alfred Hitchcock
Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart,
Barry Jones, Anne Casson, Donald Calthrop
Early Hitchcock, part suspense comedy and part knockabout farce, about some shady characters who come together in an empty house on a dark and windy night. Roles and identities keep changing right up to the end, and the extended action set piece that wraps things up is a high-speed chase involving a hijacked bus and a runaway train. At 63 minutes, the movie moves right along, too.
