And Then There Were None
Directed by	René Clair
Produced by	René Clair Harry M. Popkin
Written by	Dudley Nichols (screenplay) Agatha Christie (novel)
Starring	Barry Fitzgerald Walter Huston Louis Hayward Roland Young
Music by	Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Cinematography	Lucien N. Andriot
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Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Released	October 31, 1945 (U.S. release)
Running time	97 min.
Language	English
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The 1945 movie And Then There Were None is one of several film adaptations of Agatha Christie's best-selling mystery novel And Then There Were None concerning several people summoned to an island retreat by a mysterious stranger, only to meet their ends one by one. DVD cover. ... René Clair (November 11, 1898 – March 15, 1981) was a French filmmaker. ... René Clair (November 11, 1898 – March 15, 1981) was a French filmmaker. ... Barry Fitzgerald (March 10, 1888 - January 14, 1961) was an Irish actor. ... Actor Walter Huston in The Shanghai Gesture Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born actor. ... Louis Hayward, born Seafield Grant, (March 19, 1909-February 21, 1985), was a British actor born in Johannesburg, South Africa. ... Roland Young (11 November 1887, London - 5 June 1953, New York City) was a British actor. ... Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (April 3, 1895 – March 16, 1968) was an Italian Jewish composer. ... Related articles FOX Television Network Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Entertainment Group List of Hollywood movie studios List of movies Variant of current 20th Century Fox logo External links 20th Century Fox Movies official site Twentieth Century Fox is also the punning title of a song by The Doors on their... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... See also: 1944 in film 1945 1946 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring ghost named Casper With Rossellinis Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Agatha Christie Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. ... Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... The 1945 film version, showing (left to right) Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez and Walter Huston And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians and originally as Ten Little Niggers) is a detective novel by Agatha Christie first published in 1939. ...

This adaptation of the novel took, overall, fewer liberties with Christie's plot than some of the other versions. The ending, though, is radically altered. Only the 1987 Russian film version kept the novel's ending. This film, like all the other American versions, nixed the shooting of Philip Lombard (played by Louis Hayward) and the suicide of Vera Claythorne's character (played by June Duprez) in favour of a much happier Hollywood-ish ending. Interestingly enough, this cannot be seen solely as Hollywood tampering with an ending to the annoyance of the author's original intention. Agatha Christie herself rewrote the ending for the stage. So Dudley Nichols, the screen-writer, cannot be said to have changed Christie's ending, he simply used the play version's ending, though with one major alteration. In the play, Vera thinks she has shot Lombard, after which the murderer appears and attacks her. Lombard, who was only grazed, comes to at the last minute and shoots the murderer as he is about to hang the terrified girl. But the film simply has Vera knowingly fake Lombard's death, then confronting the culprit who commits suicide after revealing his motive and murder techniques, but, all in all, the end result is the same; the two major characters are left alive and innocent of the crimes they were accused of. All other American versions used the ending of the 1945 film rather than the book or the play, however, the 1989 version borrowed a few more details from the play's ending, though it left the killer's voluntary suicide. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Louis Hayward, born Seafield Grant, (March 19, 1909-February 21, 1985), was a British actor born in Johannesburg, South Africa. ... Duprez (centre background) with costars Barry Fitzgerald (left) and Walter Huston (right) June Duprez (May 14, 1918 – October 30, 1984) was a British film actress. ...

Apart from changing certain characters names, the film is a good companion to the novel and is remniscient of some of Alfred Hitchcock's murder mysteries. Even though its subject-matter is dark, the film is actually quite humorous in places. It was directed by Rene Clair from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols. Its 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 could arguably be seen as a precursor to the modern slasher film. The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... René Clair (November 11, 1898 - March 15, 1981) was a French filmmaker. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... Dudley Nichols was a Hollywood screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning the screenwriting Oscar for The Informer in 1936. ... Barry Fitzgerald (March 10, 1888 - January 14, 1961) was an Irish actor. ... Actor Walter Huston in The Shanghai Gesture Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born actor. ... Louis Hayward, born Seafield Grant, (March 19, 1909-February 21, 1985), was a British actor born in Johannesburg, South Africa. ... Roland Young (11 November 1887, London - 5 June 1953, New York City) was a British actor. ... Duprez (centre background) with costars Barry Fitzgerald (left) and Walter Huston (right) June Duprez (May 14, 1918 – October 30, 1984) was a British film actress. ... Mischa Auer (17 November 1905 in St. ... Sir Charles Aubrey Smith (known as Sir Aubrey Smith) (21 July 1863-20 December 1948) was an English cricketer and actor. ... Dame Judith Anderson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Dame Judith Anderson, DBE (February 10, 1897 – January 3, 1992) was an Oscar-nominated Australian stage and film actress. ... Richard Haydn (1905-1985) was a comic actor in radio, movies and TV. He was known for playing eccentric characters, emphasized by a deliberate over-nasalized and over-enunciated speech pattern. ... The slasher film (also known simply as slashers) is a sub-genre of the horror film genre. ...