And Then There Were None Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

Who dunnit?

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

STRONG CAST AND ATMOSPHERIC, BUT..

I can't help thinking that the deaths - 8 in 98 minutes - come so thick and fast that the building tension of who is the killer, and who is likely to be killed next, is rather obscured. An ingenious plot all the same.

Classic who dunnit

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!

Excellent thriller

Still one of the best..rates along side Agatha Christy's The Mousetrap.Must have seen it 5 or 6 times but still forget 'who done it' This version is getting a little aged now,but still worth watching.

Pacy and witty

By rights this shouldn't work at all: a Hollywood production of a classic English whodunnit from a French director (who casts a Russian in one part!). But the director is Rene Clair, so this is actually a great adaptation of Agatha Christie's tale with a marvellous ensemble cast.

It works as a mystery, as a thriller and as a black comedy, ticking all the boxes (sinister old house, stormy thunder and lightning crashes, cat lurking in the shadows) so satisfactorily it also works as a spoof - which as this is Clair is entirely possible. You'll be whistling the main theme for ages, too!

Classic!

Great movie, great acting and first class entertainment.

Good Movie

Good catch of the thriller by Agatha. Though it's a very old movie with a old black and white quality, but one should watch this movie to get the clue of what does a nice crime mixed thriller meant in the past.

Great

This was an old favourite of mine and i think it would be worth while watching if you havn't seen it

Rene Clairs' masterpiece!!

8 people are invited to an isolated house on an island. Already there are a butler and his wife. They all soon find out that they were invited by a mysterious Mr. Owen? They are all acused of commiting serious crimes (including the butler!).Then as each one of them gets murdered in an unique way based on the ditty '10 little indians' the suspicion of who Mr Owen is and who the murderer is gets more and more intense. Keeps you guessing till very nearly the end! Then you have to watch it again to see the plot unfold. This screenplay changes Agatha Christies original story line in a number of ways, brings it up to date and twists the ending. All for the better I say.

You must see this film, it will entertain and enthrall.

Excellent Thriller

This film has been made lots of times but this is easily the best.

Directed by Rene Clair, shot in Black and White

10 people are all stranded in a house on an isalnd connnected in some way but only known by the killer.

No violence or blood or anything hence the U certificate but this film proves that you don't need this to provide a great whodunnit.

This filmwill have you guessing who the killer is from start to finish with so many twists.

Very good indeed.