![]() Judge Cannon tries to convince Vera to hang herself, to avoid spending the rest of her life in jail, since the authorities will assume she is the obvious murderer, as the only remaining guest alive. He explains his desire to seek perfect justice and perform his duty as an executioner of the guilty. Armstrong into helping him fake his "murder". Vera returns to the hotel, where she finds all the furniture covered in sheets again, except for a chair with a noose above. They realise they are the only two remaining. Armstrong is the killer, but are then shocked to find Dr. A search of the ruins leads to Blore being pushed off a ledge to his death. Charles found Hugh's invitation among his belongings while clearing them after his death, and took his friend's place, hoping to learn more about what caused Hugh to take his life. The real Hugh Lombard was his best friend, and also committed suicide after the crime of which he was accused. Hugh reveals that he is in fact Charles Morley. Her sister committed the murder, and Vera covered for her. Vera reveals that she never escaped justice for a murder. Hugh comes to Vera's room during the night and gives her his gun. Armstrong becomes suspicions of Vera and has her locked in her room. In the confusion, Judge Cannon is found dead in his bedroom, shot in the head.īecause Vera refuses to confess to her guilt, as the other four have, Dr. She screams, and the others run to find her. Before Vera can offer her explanation, she leaves the others to get her coat. Judge Cannon convinces them to reveal the nature of the crimes of which they stand accused. The power and lights in the hotel suddenly go out, leaving the five remaining guests in the dark. ![]() Later she is found dead, bitten by a venomous snake. Ilona reveals her tragic past to the others, exposing the cause of her husband's suicide. The next morning, Elsa's husband, the butler Martino, attempts to escape into the desert and dies of heat exhaustion, his survival kit having been sabotaged. Their search reveals there is no one in the hotel except the seven of them, and that the killer must be one of them. Not long after everyone separates, Salve is stabbed to death in the hotel's catacombs. A search of the hotel is initiated by General Salve, who splits everyone into pairs. During the night, the housekeeper/cook, Elsa Martino, makes a mad dash to escape through the ruins, only to be strangled against a pillar, an ancient Persian method of execution, as noted by Hugh Lombard. The first is singer Michel Raven, whose drink is poisoned. Owen ("unknown"), someone none of them has ever met, of having escaped justice for committing murders or causing the deaths of others. They are accused via a tape recording by the host, U.N. At dinner, they notice a display of figurines: the Ten Little Indians, as represented in the doggerel in each of their suites. The guests quickly discover that their host is mysteriously absent. Towers produced a third version in 1989.Ī group of ten people, strangers to one another, arrive at a hotel deep in the Iranian desert, located adjacent to the ruins of Persepolis, 200 miles from civilization. An American made-for-television version was broadcast in 1959. Two film adaptations were previously released ( a 1945 version by René Clair and the 1965 adaptation Ten Little Indians). This was the second of three versions of Christie's novel to be adapted to the screen by producer Harry Alan Towers. The film was directed by Peter Collinson and produced by Harry Alan Towers. And Then There Were None (released in the US as Ten Little Indians) is a 1974 mystery film and an adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling 1939 mystery novel of the same name.
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