Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

clanciai This is one of Agatha Christie's most clever intrigues, and it has been filmed any number of times in very different versions. René Clair's version, however, is certainly one of the most outstanding.A party of prominent guests are invited out to an island to pass the weekend in a lush and peaceful environment, but none of them has ever met their host, whose identity grows constantly more suspect and mysterious as the intrigue develops and one after the other gets killed including the kitchen personnel. Roland Young is one of the party and an astute detective, but gradually he appears as the dumbest of them all, as they all keep spying on each other and suspecting each other. There is some diabolical humour in all this, René Clair never denies his wit and innovative qualities, but it isn't exactly funny like "The Ghost Goes West". Nevertheleess, it keeps you fettered to the last surprising moment, and no matter how impossible and improbable the intrigue may seem, it's all logical and ultimately makes sense . Of course, someone had to survive to be able to tell the tale.

JohnHowardReid An early, intriguing, skillfully directed Christie adaptation was René Clair's And Then There Were None (1945), which also gathered a splendid cast led by Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward and June Duprez. The director has managed the extremely difficult feat of blending humor with suspense, and not allowing the comedy to dissipate the mood. One of the methods he uses to achieve this admirable aim is to force comedians like Fitzgerald, Roland Young, Richard Haydn and Mischa Auer to play their comic roles with emphases and asides that are perilously straight. Fitzgerald is particularly adept at this sort of nuance. Also leavening the comedy is the many-sided portrait presented by the often blustering, sometimes dead serious, sometimes playful Walter Huston. Judith Anderson, of course, always plays with a menacing undercurrent in her every line, while Hayward as the boyish hero and Miss Duprez as the pretty-as-a-picture heroine likewise do everything well. (The 10/10 American Home Treasures DVD presents the full, uncut 97-minute original theatrical version).

Anastasia Kharlamova After all the praise lavished on this film, I decided to watch it, in spite of knowing about the changed ending. Well, to put it short: if I hadn't read the book and watched the Soviet adaptation, I would have found this one absolutely charming. The actors are good (I especially liked the ones cast as Judge Quincannon and Emily Brent), the pace is fine, considering it was filmed seventy years ago. But nevertheless, first and foremost, it's an adaptation of Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and I viewed it as one.The good points of it:1) The shot fired by the judge and Dr. Armstrong when they stage the judge's murder. After all, it was the most reasonable thing to do. 2) The soundtrack. A splendid one (and catchy, too!)3) The judge's "game of the mind". A nice addition to his character. 4) The Rogers. Both well played, and their interaction was shown quite believably. The bad points:1) The whole comic atmosphere. Two of the reviewers compared the film to a parlor game, and I couldn't agree more. The mistrust, tension and fear that completely dominate the characters after Mrs. Rogers dies… are simply absent here. Up to the very end, everyone seems to behave as if they're in a murder game. It's okay by itself, it's not like a detective comedy is bad, if you haven't read the book, that is.2) The general's reduced to a clown-like character, and his story (the most touching story of them all) is barely mentioned. 3) Blore is made an idiot. No: an IDIOT. Of course, he's not a genius in the book either, but here, I was shocked he had lived to his age at all, being so utterly brainless.4) The change in Vera's backstory. I wouldn't have minded it (although it seems pointless, like Beatrice Taylor being replaced by Peter Brent for no reason), but it makes the seaweed trick nonsensical. 5) Had to mention it. The ending. It seems that THIS judge's real plan was like "seven murders and one matchmaking". I thought he would have had his future victims' photographs! Why didn't he react to the wrong person (Morley)'s arrival? He searched for murderers so scrupulously, yet he failed to deduct that it was Vera's sister who was actually guilty. It seemed to me after watching the film that Lombard and Vera were in fact lying by the end. Why not? It would be very fitting for Lombard to make up a convincing story about him being another man. I mean, when a gun's pointed at you, you'll call yourself any name just to escape! As it's implied that Vera's sister is dead, Vera, too, could throw the blame on her to save her neck (she told Lombard about her sister before the killer was revealed, so she could have thought him Owen). So, it's a romantic comedy with some mystery thrown in-between, but so different in spirit from the original book it was hard to consider it an adaptation.

SnoopyStyle Ten people are brought to an isolated island estate by the Owens. They don't know each other and the Owens are not there. At dinner, there is a centerpiece with ten little Indian figurines. A record is played and each one is accused of a murder. Vera Claythorne (June Duprez) is suppose to be Mrs. Owen's new secretary. She murdered her sister's fiancé. General Sir John Mandrake (C. Aubrey Smith) ordered his wife's lover to his death. The new servants Thomas (Richard Haydn) and Ethel Rogers (Queenie Leonard) killed their invalid employer. Emily Brent (Judith Anderson) killed her nephew. A drunk Dr. Edward G. Armstrong (Walter Huston) caused the death of a patient. Prince Nikita Starloff (Mischa Auer) killed a couple in a DUI. Judge Francis J. Quinncannon (Barry Fitzgerald) is responsible for an innocent man's hanging. Philip Lombard (Louis Hayward) killed 21 East African tribesmen. William H. Blore (Roland Young)'s perjury caused an innocent man's death. Soon, they realize that nobody has ever met U.N. Owen or unknown and the boat is not coming back until Monday. The people starts dying one by one and the figurines are lost one by one. It becomes apparent that one of the group is actually the killer.Based on the famous Agatha Christie novel, this is a contrived story but that's Agatha Christie. It is fun that way. It's a parlor game and the audience is there to guess the ending. They are all serious actors giving compelling performances. It has a few sly jokes and keeps the mood from being too dark. It is snappy and the deaths keep coming.