And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling mystery fiction And Then There Were None and is directed by René Clair
The film changes certain characters' names and adheres to the ending of the stage play rather than that of the novel.
The cast featured Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez, Mischa Auer, C. Aubrey Smith, Judith Anderson, Richard Haydn and Queenie Leonard as the people stranded on the island. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival
Though it was produced by a major studio, 20th Century Fox, the copyright was allowed to lapse and the film is now in the public domain
Plot
Eight people, all total strangers to each other, are invited to small, isolated Indian Island off the coast of Devon, England, by Mr. and Mrs. Owen. They settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers, but their hosts are absent. When the guests sit down to dinner, they notice the centerpiece, ten figurines of Indians in a circle. Afterward, Thomas puts on a gramophone record, from which a voice accuses them all of murder:
Cast
Barry Fitzgerald...Judge Francis J. Quinncannon
Walter Huston...Dr. Edward G. Armstrong
Louis Hayward...Philip Lombard/Charles Morley
June Duprez...Vera Claythorne
Roland Young...Detective William Henry Blore
Mischa Auer...Prince Nikita "Nikki" Starloff
C. Aubrey Smith...General Sir John Mandrake
Judith Anderson...Emily Brent
Richard Haydn...Thomas Rogers
Queenie Leonard...Ethel Rogers
ReceptionAnd Then There Were None currently holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Remakes
Christie's mystery has been filmed a number of times, including as Ten Little Indians (1965 film) (1965), And Then There Were None (1974 film) (1974), Desyat Negrityat (1987) and Ten Little Indians (1989 film) (1989), with variations to its characters and locale.
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