Based on a thriller play by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, Alfred Hitchcock's 1932 movie starts engagingly enough as sinister characters descend upon a property, number 17, discover a body and try to work out why everyone has come to this ramshackle old property at night, but then things falter and the characters stumble around with not enough to do, clearly just biding time for the grand cinematic showpiece that comes towards film's end - an audacious runaway train scene that even today has your heart stop as the train rockets towards the end of the track!
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