And Then There Were None (1945 film)
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| Directed by | René Clair |
| Produced by | René Clair Harry M. Popkin |
| Written by | Dudley Nichols |
| Based on | 1939 Novel: Agatha Christie |
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Barry Fitzgerald Walter Huston Louis Hayward |
| Music by | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco |
| Cinematography | Lucien N. Andriot |
| Edited by | Harvey Manger |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million |
| Box office | $1 million |
And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling mysterynovel of the same name, directed by René Clair. It was released in the UK with the title Ten Little Indians, in line with the UK title of Christie's 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 and the Best Direction Award at the Locarno International Film Festival.
Though it was distributed by a major studio, 20th Century Fox, the copyright was allowed to lapse and the film is now in the public domain. Several different editions of varying quality have been released to home video formats.
Eight people, all total strangers to each other, are invited to a small, isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr. and Mrs. Owen. Ferried over by a sailor called Narracott, 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 Rogers puts on a gramophone record, from which a voice accuses them all of murder:
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