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	And Then There Were None (1945) Country of Origin: USA Year of Production: 1945 Running Times: 97 mins Format: black and white 35mm Ratio: 1.37:1 Sound: mono CREDITS PRODUCTION Production Companies: Twentieth Century Fox/Popular / Rene Clair Productions Producers: René Clair, Harry M. Popkin Associate Producer: Leo C. Popkin Production Manager: Joseph H. Nadel Unit Manager: Ben Berk SCRIPT Script: Dudley Nichols, René Clair (uncredited) Novel: Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie DIRECTION Director: René Clair Assistant Director: Sam Nelson PHOTOGRAPHY Director of Photography: Lucien Androit EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION Editor: Harvey Manger MUSIC Music: M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco (real name: Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco), Charles Previn Musical Director: Charles Previn SOUND Sound Recordists: Arthur Johns, Carson F. Jowett MAKE UP AND COSTUMES Costume Designer: René Hubert DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION Art Director: Ernst Fegté Set Decorator: Edward G. Boyle CAST Barry Fitzgerald (Judge Francis J. Quinncannon) Walter Huston (Dr Edward G. Armstrong) Louis Hayward (Philip Lombard) Roland Young (Detective William Henry Blore) June Duprez (Vera Claythorne) Mischa Auer (Prince Nikita Starloff) C. Aubrey Smith (General Sir John Mandrake) Judith Anderson (Emily Brent) Richard Haydn (Thomas Rogers) Queenie Leonard (Ethel Rogers) Harry Thurston (boatman) PLOT SUMMARY Ten people are invited to a weekend gathering on a remote island by Mr U.N. Own who fails to turn up. Instead, he leaves a record at his mansion which, when played, reveals that all of the guests are murderers. Then the guests start turning up dead, picked off one by one by an unseen assassin... CAPSULE REVIEW The best big-screen adaptation of Agatha Christie, this adaptation of her her much renamed novel benefits from a taut script and a hugely talented director at the peak of his game. Add to that an outstanding cast of seasoned character actors and you've got the perfect murder mystery thriller, one that created the blueprint from which all subsequent body count movies have been created. The ending, incidentally, is taken not from Christie's novel but from her own adaptation of the book into a play. AVAILABILITY Italy Video Distributor: AVO Film USA Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Video Distributor: Englewood Entertainment; VCI Home Video DVD Distributor: VCI Home Video (DVD 8209) AWARDS 1946 Locarno International Film Festival Best Film (René Clair) - winner TIMELINE 1945 October 31: USA - theatrical release 1953 April 10: West Germany - theatrical release 1999 July 13: USA - DVD release (VCI Home Video (DVD 8209)) ALTERNATIVE TITLES E poi ne rimase ness uno - Italian title Dieci piccoli indiani - Italian title Ten Little Niggers - UK title Das Letzte Wochenende - German title Diez negritos - Spanish title Convite para a Morte - Portugese title LINKS REMAKES And Then There Were None (1974) Desyat negrityat (1987) Gumnaam (1965) Ten Little Niggers (1949) Ten Little Indians (1959) Ten Little Indians (1966) Ten Little Indians (1989) SEE ALSO The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees (2002) Murder by Death (1976) REFERENCES MAGAZINES Giallo Guide 1987 pp.5, 24 credits, review TV Times 4 - 10 February 1984 pp.21, 51 (UK) review, credits TV Times 22 - 28 June 1985 pp.31, 51 (UK) review, credits Video Viewer May 1983 (UK) illustrated review BOOKS The BFI Companion to Crime p.34 review Horror and Science Fiction Films Volume II p.10 credits KEYWORDS book into film; play into film; serial killers; islands