![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All ten are strangers, and none has met their absent host, ‘Mr U. The film diverts little from this idea, but has transposed the cast to the top of a snowbound mountain. One of them must be the killer, but the pool of suspects keeps diminishing… In Christie’s original novel, ten characters are stranded on an island and are murdered one by one. Ten Little Indians is a 1965 British film adaptation – one of four in fact (there were versions in 1945, 1974, and 1989, plus a 1959 straight-to-TV version). Apparently the 1974 film with Oliver Reed and Elke Sommer follows the script of this one very closely – no surprise because it looks as if the same guy Harry Alan Towers wrote both (and the 1989 version too). The director George Pollock had previous Christie experience, having directed three Miss Marple films with Margaret Rutherford, but this is a much darker sort of film. Having seen the news that the BBC is planning a new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, I was interested to see this come up in my TV listings last week. OwenĪdapted by: Peter Yeldham and Peter Welbeck (Harry Alan Towers) Starring: Wilfred Hyde White, Fabian, Hugh O’Brien, Shirley Eaton, Stanley Holloway, Christopher Lee as the voice of Mr U. The Whodunnit Break! A first in motion pictures! Just before the gripping climax of the film, you will be given sixty seconds to guess the killer’s identity! The film will pause and on the screen you will see clues to help you decide who the murderer is…We Dare You To Guess! ![]()
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