What is Sabotage / Number 17 about?

SABOTAGE: Scotland Yard investigator John Loder circles around movie theater owner Oskar Homolka and his wife, Sylvia Sidney, while trying to break up a terrorist network. Watch as the famous Hitchcock quote, about how a ticking bomb can distinguish between suspense and surprise, plays out on the streets of London. NUMBER 17, 1932, Rialto Pictures, 63 min. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. This adaptation of J. Jefferson Farjeon’s hit West End play mixes suspense and farce as a group of people converge on the old dark house at the titular address, hoping to lay hands on a priceless diamond necklace. But no one is quite who they appear to be, and this rarely screened film will keep audiences guessing right up to the exciting finale on a runaway train.

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What is Sabotage / Number 17 about?: SABOTAGE: Scotland Yard investigator John Loder circles around movie theater owner Oskar Homolka and his wife, Sylvia Sidney, while trying to break up a terrorist network. Watch as the famous Hitchcock quote, about how a ticking bomb can distinguish between suspense and surprise, plays out on the streets of London.

NUMBER 17, 1932, Rialto Pictures, 63 min. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. This adaptation of J. Jefferson Farjeon’s hit West End play mixes suspense and farce as a group of people converge on the old dark house at the titular address, hoping to lay hands on a priceless diamond necklace. But no one is quite who they appear to be, and this rarely screened film will keep audiences guessing right up to the exciting finale on a runaway train.