Number 17 (1928 film)

Number 17
Directed by	Géza von Bolváry
Written by	Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (play) Adolf Lantz Benno Vigny
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 & Freedman Film Service (UK) Deutsche Fox (Germany)
Release date	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 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.

Cast

• Guy Newall - Ben
• Lien Deyers - Elsie Ackroyd
• Carl de Vogt - Gilbert Fordyce
• Fritz Greiner - Shelldrake
• Ernst Reicher - Harold Brant
• Hertha von Walther - Nora Brant
• Craighall Sherry - Sam Ackroyd
• Fred Solm - Henry Jobber
• Paul Samson-Körner

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.

External links

• Number 17 at IMDb