An Agatha Christie tale told four times on film, this is still the best. Ten guests on an isolated island are murdered one by one. The only clue is a children's nursery rhyme. A black comedy-mystery with terrific performances, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE is adapted beautifully by acclaimed French director Rene Clair. Read more
| Starring | Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young |
|---|---|
| Director | Rene Clair |
| Genres | Thriller |
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An Agatha Christie tale told four times on film, this is still the best. Ten guests on an isolated island are murdered one by one. The only clue is a children's nursery rhyme. A black comedy-mystery with terrific performances, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE is adapted beautifully by acclaimed French director Rene Clair.
| Starring | Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez, Judith Anderson, Mischa Auer |
|---|---|
| Director | Rene Clair |
| Studio | CORNERSTONE MEDIA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 38 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 11 May 2009 Production year: 1945 |
| Format | DVD |
This third film version of Agatha Christie's whodunnit Ten Little Indians assembles strangers at an isolated Persian palace and bumps them off one by one in retribution. It is lushly filmed by director Peter Collinson in pre-revolutionary Iran, but stars such as Richard Attenborough, Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer and Herbert Lom are given the task of propping up a dubious proposition, helped by the disembodied voice of narrator Orson Welles, who lends the project more weight than it deserves.
Glossily bland tax-shelter travesty of Agatha Christie's play, shot partly as an advert for up-market tourism in the... read more on Time Out
This film received the highest star rating from Halliwell at the time of release. Now it plays like a rather creeky old thriller. It has to be said that the story is ingenious, if rather implausible. You can easily spot who will be killed off first and most of the characters are 'of the peg' creations. Likewise, much of the acting is by numbers stuff and the women are especially dull and wooden. Best value comes from old timers Walter Huston and Mr Fitzgerald and they still look a bit like they are on autopilot. Rene Clair is a stylish director not helped here by uninteresting sets and a tendency to bathe everything in studio lights. Still worth a look as a curio if not as the 4 star film that Haliwell rated
If your an Agatha Christie fan then watch this film. Yes it is in black and white but this adds to the suspence of what is going on. If you take away Miss Marple and take away Poirot what are you left with? Classic Agatha Christie mystery.
8 people are invited to a house on an island, and they have no idea what is going on. They turn up there and their host isnt there, or is he? A butler and a maid are already there waiting for the guests so this makes 10 guests.
People start dying and mysteriously the 10 lil indians on the dinner table are being broken each time someone is murdered. The murders are going in order of the nursery ryhme, 10 lil indians.
The film is basicly sticking 10 idiots in a house and see what happens. And you know what its classic.
A must see!