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And Then There Were None (1974 film)

And Then There Were NoneDirected byPeter CollinsonScreenplay byHarry Alan Towers(as "Peter Welbeck")Uncredited:Enrique LlovetBased onAnd Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieProduced byHarry Alan TowersStarringRichard AttenboroughOliver ReedHerbert LomStéphane AudranElke SommerGert FröbeCharles AznavourNaser Malek MotieiCinematographyFernando ArribasEdited byJohn TrumperGabrielle ReineckeMike CrowleyMusic byBruno NicolaiDistributed byAVCO Embassy Pictures197498 min.CountryItaly / Germany / France / Spain / United KingdomLanguageEnglish
And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians) is a 1974 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling 1939 mystery novel of the same name. The film was directed by Peter Collinson and produced by Harry Alan Towers. This was the second of three versions of Christie's novel to be adapted to the screen by producer Harry Alan Towers. Two film adaptations were previously released (a 1945 version by René Clair and the 1965 adaptation Ten Little Indians). An American made-for-television version was broadcast in 1959. Towers produced a third version in 1989.

Plot
A group of ten people, strangers to one another, have all travelled to a hotel located deep in the deserts of Iran. Upon arrival, they discover that their host is mysteriously absent. At dinner, they notice a display of figurines: the Ten Little Indians, as represented in the doggerel in each of their suites. They are accused via a tape recording by the host, U.N. Owen ("unknown"), someone none of them has ever met, of having committed various crimes in the past, each of which went unpunished by the law.

One by one, the guests start to die: first is Michel Raven, whose drink was poisoned. During the night, the housekeeper/cook, Elsa Martino, makes a mad dash to escape, only to be strangled against a pillar, an ancient Persian method of execution, as noted by Hugh Lombard. A search of the hotel is initiated by General Salve, who splits everyone into pairs. Not long after everyone separates from each other, Salve is stabbed to death in the hotel's catacombs. Their search reveals there is no one in the desert except the seven of them, and that the killer is one of them.

The next morning, Elsa's husband, the butler, attempts to escape into the desert and expires from heat exhaustion, his survival kit having been sabotaged. Ilona reveals her tragic past to the others, exposing the cause of her husband's suicide. Later she is found dead, bitten by a venomous snake. The lights soon go out, leaving the five remaining guests in the dark. At dinner, they reveal the nature of the crimes of which they stand accused. Before Vera can offer her explanation, she leaves the others to return to her room. She screams, and the others run to her room. In the confusion, Judge Cannon is found dead in his bedroom, shot in the head.

Dr. Armstrong poses his suspicions of Vera and has her locked in her room. Hugh comes to Vera during the night to give her his gun, and reveals that he is in fact Charles Morley; the real Lombard had committed suicide, and he took his place instead. In return, Vera confesses that she never committed murder, and was taking the blame for her mentally ill sister.

The next morning, Dr. Armstrong is nowhere to be found. A search of the ruins leads to Blore being pushed off a ledge to his death. Vera and Morley find the body of Dr. Armstrong in the ruins and realise they are the only two remaining.

Vera shoots at Morley and returns to the hotel, where she finds all the furniture covered in sheets again, except for a chair with a noose above. She finds Judge Cannon alive, who reveals how he tricked Dr. Armstrong into helping him fake his "murder", and his desire to seek perfect justice and perform his duty as an executioner of the guilty. He tries to convince Vera to hang herself to avoid spending the rest of her life in jail as the obvious murderer, being the only remaining guest alive. He drinks poison and prepares to die, right before Morley appears, alive. Cannon chokes on the poison and realises his scheme has been foiled before he dies. With Cannon dead, Vera and Morley are picked up by a helicopter as the tape recording is replayed.

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