Agatha Christie | And Then There Were None (1945) [Crime] [Mystery]

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“And Then There Were None” is a 1945 film adaption of Agatha Christie’s best-selling mystery novel “And Then There Were None” directed by René Clair. The film changes certain characters’ names and adheres to the ending of the play rather than that of the novel. Though its subject matter is dark, the screenplay injects considerable humor into the proceedings, lightening the tone of Christie’s grim book. It was directed by René 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, though it certainly isn’t gory, and the deaths are not played up for their horror, as they are in slasher films today.

The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.

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Directed by René Clair, produced by René Clair and Harry M. Popkin, written by Dudley Nichols and Agatha Christie (novel), starring Barry Fitzgerald as Judge Francis J. Quinncannon, Walter Huston as Dr. Edward G. Armstrong, Louis Hayward as Philip Lombard / Charles Morley, June Duprez as Vera Claythorne, Roland Young as Detective William Henry Blore, Mischa Auer as Prince Nikita “Nikki” Starloff, C. Aubrey Smith as General Sir John Mandrake, Judith Anderson as Emily Brent, Richard Haydn as Thomas Rogers and Queenie Leonard as Ethel Rogers.

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Source: “And Then There Were None (1945 film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 2 May 2013. Web. 05 May 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None_(1945_film).

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38 Replies to “Agatha Christie | And Then There Were None (1945) [Crime] [Mystery]”

  1. I read the book back in either 7th or 9th grade, forget which one. Those of us who have read the book can see the similarities and differences between it and the movie. I'm usually one who says that the original material (the book) is better but I also have to admit that the soft part of me likes the happy ending of the movie.

  3. And Then There Were None.Original title from Ten Little Niggers of course Wishful thinking.Keep working at it. Good luck.
    e following version of the song was included in the first film version of And Then There Were None (1945), which largely took Green's lyrics and replaced the already sensitive word "nigger" with "indian" (in some versions "soldiers"): Ten little Indian boys went out to dine;One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little Indian boys sat up very late;One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon;One said he'd stay there and then there were seven. Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks;One chopped himself in halves and then there were six. Six little Indian boys playing with a hive;A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little Indian boys going in for law;One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little Indian boys going out to sea;A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little Indian boys walking in the zoo;A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little Indian boys playing in the sun;One got all frizzled up and then there was one. One little Indian boy left all alone;He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.[

  4. Nice to see so many great Hollywood character stars for once allowed to have a movie to themselves, specially Hollywood`s favourite Irishman, Barry Fitzgerald,  "Roly" Young (the slimy Uriah Heep of Cukor`s "David Copperfield") and Richard Haydn, the congenial uncle of "The Sound Of Music".

  5. It takes a certain kind of MATURITYto read or enjoy these kind of books…..  I learned to appreciate them as a PRETEEN…..Try REBECCA, by Dauphne DuMaurier; maybe… GOTHICmysteries are a bit more something,for a beginner….

  7. Why did they change the end agatha wrote it perfectly with the hogo being there thing… After i finished the book i entered youtube to see if i imagined faces perfectly but then i find this stupid end aaaahhhh

  8. The studio-softened ending — see the Russian film version "Desyat Negrityat" for the story as Christie finished it up — doesn't damage Clair's wonderful choreographic humor or the not-too-frightening claustrophobia he invokes as he spins the tale. It does damage the title; there aren't "none" at the end. However, the actors look like they're having a great time, especially Young, Haydn, Fitzgerald and Huston; the latter actually cocks an eye at the audience at 1:18:50. Maybe Clair was doing the same during the whole film.  

  20. On the last day I said " And Then There Were None ". I described something like a place with 10 dolls as shown in 11:19 and as the murder happens each doll was crushed. 

  28. Ms. Brent said that her sister's son took after "his father's side", yet it was before stated by the record that the boy's last name was the same as her`s, Brent. They would not have had the same last name.

  30. Louis Hayward (Lombard) served in the Marines in WWII. This was his first post-war picture. Compared to his earlier movies in the '30s, he seems to have matured a lot here. Great actor in either decade! 

  31. I saw the movie , but while reading the book i imagined the judge to be more like clint eastwood & Dr. Armstrong to be like Harrison ford. Vera was just as i imagined her to be ,same as the movie, the movie has a different ending from book though.

  36. Tell me something. How did lombard and vera figure out that judge is the murderer, so they set up this little shooting lombard stunt?

    by the way book ending was much better.

  38. Thank you for posting this. I'm getting into Agatha novels and I LOVE classic movies!
    I THINK I know who Rogers is….. he MAY (if I'm right) have had a bit part in the movie Young Frankenstein, where he introduced one, whose family name is at once both FAMOUS and INFAMOUS

    Okay…. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370821/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t9#actor I was right about Young Frankenstein but wrong about the character he played. He was the guy with the will who introduced himself to Fredrick Fronkonsteen after he (Fredrick/ Gene Wilder) hilariously stabbed himself in the leg with a scalpel. ??

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