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	And Then There Were None (1974) Country of Origin: France /Spain/West Germany/Italy/UK Year of Production: 1974 Running Times: 92 mins 98 mins 105 mins Format: Eastmancolor 35mm Ratio: Sound: CREDITS PRODUCTION Production Companies: COMECI/Coralta Cinematografica/Corona Filmproduktion/Filibuster Films/Gloria Film/Les Films Corona/Talia Films Producer: Peter Welbeck (real name: Harry Alan Towers) Associate Producers: Harry Benn, Tibor Reves, Juan Estelrich (?) SCRIPT Script: Erich Kröhnke, Enrique Llovet, Peter Welbeck (rn: Harry Alan Towers) Novel: Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie DIRECTION Director: Peter Collinson PHOTOGRAPHY Director of Photography: Fernando Arribas EDITING Editor: Gabrielle Reinecke, John Trumper Assistant Editor: Mike Crowley Post Production Supervisor: Nicholas Wentworth MUSIC Music: Bruno Nicolai, Carlo Rustichelli SOUND Sound Mixer: Ivan Sharrock Sound Assistant: Peter Offer Sound Editor: Mike le Mare Re-Recordist: Trevor Pyke Post Production: Twickenham Film Studios, EMI Sound Division, London DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION Production Designer: José María Tapiador MISCELLANEOUS Continuity: Sue Merry Production Accountant: Charles Athey LOCATIONS Locations: Iran; Spain CAST Oliver Reed (Hugh Lombard) Elke Sommer (Vera Clyde) Richard Attenborough (Judge Arthur Cannon) Stéphane Audran (Ilona Morgan) Gert Fröbe (Wilhelm Blore) Herbert Lom (Dr Edward Armstrong) Maria Rohm (Elsa Martino) Adolfo Celi (General Andre Salve) Alberto de Mendoza (Otto Martino) Charles Aznavour (Michel Raven) Orson Welles (voice in tape recording) Teresa Gimpera Rik Battaglia Nasser Malek Moti-i Sepedeh PLOT SUMMARY The mysterious Mr Owen invites eight strangers to his luxury hotel at Isfahan in Iran who are told by a mysterious voice on a tape recording that they are all unpunished murderers and that all will die by dawn. Before long they start dying one by one and paranoia among the survivors is rife. Can they catch the killer before he/she gets them all? CAPSULE REVIEW A crushingly inept adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel that had already been done so much better in 1945 by Rene Clair. This infuriating and remake pointlessly moves the action to Iran (presumably so that director Peter Collinson can pad out the proceedings with endless shots of the local scenery). Four production houses and a galaxy of European stars could do nothing to prevent this ill-advised venture from becoming a crashing bore. Collinson's inept direction bludgeons what little life is left from Christie's creaking whodunit and the cast all look as though they're about to bolt at any second. Appalling rubbish with nothing whatsoever to redeem it. AVAILABILITY Spain Theatrical Distributor: Productora Cinematográfica del Norte S.A. USA Theatrical Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures CENSORSHIP HISTORY Finland Rating: K-16 Germany Rating: 16 (w) Sweden Rating: 15 USA Rating: PG TIMELINE 1974 September 24: West Germany - theatrical release 1975 January 27: Spain - theatrical release (Madrid) March 10: Sweden - theatrical release November 7: Finland - theatrical release December Day Unknown: UK theatrical release 1982 May 23: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1) 1984 July 4: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1) 1994 November Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Bravo) 1998 September 6: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1) 2001 December 8: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2) ALTERNATIVE TITLES ...e poi non ne rimase nessuno - Italian title Diez negritos - Spanish title Dix petits nègres - French title Ten Little Indians - US title Ein Unbekannter rechnet ab - German title Zehn kleine Negerlein - German title LINKS SEE ALSO And Then There Were None (1945) Ten Little Indians (1966) Desyat negrityat (1987) Ten Little Indians (1989) REFERENCES MAGAZINES Radio Times 2-8 June 1984 p.16 (UK) review OTHER SOURCES screen credits KEYWORDS book into film, paranoia, serial killers Last Updated: 1 January, 2009