Number 17 (1928 film)

Number 17
Number 17
Directed by	Géza von Bolváry
Written by	Adolf Lantz; Benno Vigny;
Based on	Number 17; by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
Produced by	Hermann Fellner; Josef Somlo;
Starring	Guy Newall; Lien Deyers; Carl de Vogt; Fritz Greiner;
Cinematography	Eduard Hoesch
Production; companies	Felsom Film; Gainsborough Pictures;
Distributed by	Woolf and Freedman Film Service (UK); Deutsche Fox (Germany);
Release date	30 November 1928;
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent; English intertitles; German intertitles;

Number 17 (German: Haus Nummer 17) is a 1928 German-British silent crime film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Guy Newall, Lien Deyers, and Carl de Vogt.

The film was based on the 1925 play Number 17 by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, later adapted by Alfred Hitchcock for his film Number Seventeen (1932). The 1928 film was one of several co-productions made in the 1920s between Britain's Gainsborough Pictures and Germany's Felsom Film.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff.

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Bergfelder, Tim; Cargnelli, Christian, eds. (2008). Destination London: German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925–1950. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-019-7.

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