Number 17

Detective Fordyce (John Stuart) and bum Ben (Leon M. Lion) have discovered a corpse, hardly introduced themselves, and found unescorted neighbor Rose (Ann Casson), who’s looking for her father in the abandoned house, because he got a telegram, much uncertainty, Alfred Hitchcock directing, in Number Seventeen, 1932.

Action and long complex shots in Alfred Hitchcock’s opening, John Stuart whom we’ll learn is a detective, coming upon the house referenced in the title, and encountering Leon M. Lion, as vagrant Ben, in the notoriously talky and convoluted Number Seventeen, 1932.