And Then There Were None (1945) | Full Movie | w/ Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, C. Aubrey Smith

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | USA | English | B&W | 97min w/ Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, C. Aubrey Smith, Queenie Leonard, June Duprez, Judith Anderson Ten people, strangers to each other, are invited to a lavish estate on an island. Through a recording, their mysterious host accuses each of his guests of murder and proceeds to exact justice. The tension mounts as, one by one, the number of people are reduced through the ingenious plotting of the unseen killer. Finally only two are left and each is uncertain as to whether or not the other is the murderer. And Then There Were None (1945), directed by René Clair, is one of several film adaptations of Agatha Christie's best-selling mystery novel of the same name concerning several people summoned to an island retreat by a mysterious stranger, only to meet their ends one by one. 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 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.