And Then There Were None (1974 film)

And Then There Were None
A film poster bearing the film's alternative title: Ten Little Indians
Directed by	Peter Collinson
Produced by	Harry Alan Towers
Screenplay by	Harry Alan Towers (as "Peter Welbeck") Uncredited: Enrique Llovet
Based on	Novel: Agatha Christie
Starring	Richard Attenborough Oliver Reed Charles Aznavour Stéphane Audran Elke Sommer Gert Fröbe
Music by	Bruno Nicolai
Cinematography	Fernando Arribas
Edited by	John Trumper Gabrielle Reinecke Mike Crowley
Production company	Corona Filmproduktion Talía Films COMECI
Distributed by	AVCO Embassy Pictures
Release date	1974
Running time	98 min.
Country	Italy / Germany / France / Spain / United Kingdom
Language	English

And Then There Were None (a.k.a. Ten Little Indians) is a 1974 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling 1939 mystery novel of the same name. The film was directed by Peter Collinson and produced by Harry Alan Towers.

Two film adaptations were previously released (the 1945 version of the same title by René Clair and the 1965 Ten Little Indians), as was a videotaped made-for-television version broadcast in 1959. This was the second of three versions of Christie's novel to be adapted to the screen by producer Harry Alan Towers; the others were the aforementioned 1965 version, and another in 1989.

This 1974 film follows the script of the 1965 version, right down to calling the Oliver Reed character "Hugh" (a name change made to accommodate Hugh O'Brian in the earlier version) instead of "Phillip," which was the character's name in the novel and play. It is set in an abandoned hotel in the Iranian desert and was shot in the Shah Abbas Hotel (now known as the Abbasi Hotel) in Iran during its pre-revolution days. (The 1965 version was set at a snowed-in mountain chalet, and the 1989 one in the African savanna.)

The film is an hour and 38 minutes long and was the first version of the novel to be filmed in colour.

Some versions of the film feature a pre-credit sequence that shows the guests arriving by plane at an airport in Iran, where they subsequently board a helicopter to be transported to the hotel. This prologue was cut from the U.S. release.