Number 17 (play)

{{Short description|1925 play by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox play | name =Number 17 | image = | image_size = | caption = | writer = Joseph Jefferson Farjeon | setting = | date of premiere = 6 July 1925 | original language = English | place = Winter Gardens Theatre, New Brighton | series = | subject = | genre = Thriller }} '''''Number 17''''' is a 1925 thriller play by the British writer Joseph Jefferson Farjeon.

It premiered at the Winter Gardens Theatre in New Brighton before beginning a West End run of 209 performances, initially at the New Theatre before transferring to Wyndham's and then the Duke of York's Theatre. The original cast included Nicholas Hannen, Fred Groves, Leon M. Lion and Nora Swinburne.<ref>Wearing p.379</ref>

The following year he wrote a novelisation of the play, published by Hodder and Stoughton.<ref name="HitchcockGuide">{{cite web|url=https://www.brentonfilm.com/articles/alfred-hitchcock-collectors-guide-number-seventeen-1932|title=Alfred Hitchcock Collectors' Guide: Number Seventeen (1932)|work=Brenton Film|date=16 August 2019}}</ref>

==Adaptations== ===Film=== *1928, German silent film directed by Géza von Bolváry<ref name="HitchcockGuide"/> *1932, film ''Number Seventeen'' directed by Alfred Hitchcock.<ref name="HitchcockGuide"/><ref>Goble p.891</ref> *1949, Swedish film directed by Gösta Stevens.<ref name="HitchcockGuide"/>

===Television=== *1958, programme adapted by Juan Cortés and directed by Cyril Butcher, part of the ''ITV Play of the Week'' series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1177989/|title = No. 17|website = IMDb}}</ref>

===Radio=== *1938, for BBC Radio produced by Leslie Stokes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7237a2a88272457883586ecd11ca8684|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026150033/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7237a2a88272457883586ecd11ca8684|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 October 2014|title=BBC Programme Index|date=30 December 1938 }}</ref> *1938, for BBC Radio produced by Howard Rose.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/daf6d9cb4ade423bb01363f89ce7e482|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125082400/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/daf6d9cb4ade423bb01363f89ce7e482|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 January 2020|title=BBC Programme Index|date=16 March 1942 }}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Wearing, J. P. ''The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

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