And Then There Were None

19451945
PGPG
1h 37m

7.5/10

Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to deter... Read allSeven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.

7.5/10

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Director
- René Clair
Writers
- Agatha Christie(novel)
- Dudley Nichols(screenplay)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win

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Judith Anderson, Mischa Auer, June Duprez, Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Haydn, Louis Hayward, Walter Huston, Queenie Leonard, C. Aubrey Smith, and Roland Young in And Then There Were None (1945)

June Duprez, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, Walter Huston, and Roland Young in And Then There Were None (1945)

June Duprez, Barry Fitzgerald, and Walter Huston in And Then There Were None (1945)

June Duprez in And Then There Were None (1945)

June Duprez, Louis Hayward, and Harry Thurston in And Then There Were None (1945)

Harry Thurston in And Then There Were None (1945)

Roland Young in And Then There Were None (1945)

Walter Huston in And Then There Were None (1945)

Barry Fitzgerald in And Then There Were None (1945)

Judith Anderson in And Then There Were None (1945)

Seven guests, a newly hired personal secretary and two staff are gathered for a weekend on an isolated island by the hosts, the Owens, who are delayed. At dinner, a record is played and the host's message alleges that all of the people present are guilty of murder, and suddenly the first of them is dead, then the next. It seems that one of them is the murderer, but the leading person is always the person who is murdered next and at last, only two people are left. —Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>

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Trivia
Queenie Leonard (Mrs. Ethel Rogers), who died on January 17, 2002 at age 96, was the last surviving cast member.

Goofs
In a flashback, Mr. Owen kills the seventh victim, takes a drink from a flask, and then tosses the flask away, leaving the stopper open. However, when two characters find the flask the next day, the stopper is closed.

Quotes
Emily Brent: Very stupid to kill the only servant in the house. Now we don't even know where to find the marmalade.

Crazy credits
The first line of the nursery rhyme appears onscreen - "Ten Little Indians Went Out To Dine...." - superimposed over a set of small statues of Native Americans - this is immediately followed by the film's title "And Then There Were None".

Connections
Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Stories "The Simpsons" Should Adapt for Treehouse of Horror (2017)

Soundtracks
Ten Little Indians
(uncredited)
Performed by Mischa Auer
Played often throughout the picture

Top review

8/10

Who Might Be the Mysterious Killer?

Judge Francis J. Quinncannon (Barry Fitzgerald), Dr. Edward G. Armstrong (Walter Huston), Philip Lombard (Louis Hayward), Detective William Henry Blore (Roland Young), the secretary Vera Claythorne (June Duprez), Prince Nikita 'Nikki' Starloff (Mischa Auer), Gen. Sir John Mandrake (Sir C. Aubrey Smith) and Emily Brent (Judith Anderson) are invited by the mysterious Mr U. N. Own to spend the weekend in an island and they are hosted by the newly-hired butler Thomas Rogers (Richard Haydn) and his wife and housekeeper Ethel Rogers (Queenie Leonard).

Thomas explains that Mr. Own will arrive later and following the instructions of his master, he plays a record where the host explains that all of them have been accused of murder. Further, they realize that none of them actually knows Mr. Own. Vera plays a song about Ten Little Indians on the piano and they see a decoration on the table with ten Indians. Soon they are killed one-by-one while the each Indian vanishes from the decoration. Who might be the mysterious killer?

"And Then There Were None" is an engaging thriller based on a novel and a stage play by Agatha Christie. René Clair makes an excellent theatrical but never boring film, supported by magnificent performances and a delightful screenplay with tense and humorous situations. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "O Vingador Invisível" ("The Invisible Avenger")

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