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And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1939 mystery novel of the same name, directed by René Clair. It was released in the United Kingdom as Ten Little Indians, in keeping with the third United Kingdom title of Christie's novel. The film was produced by 20th Century Fox and due to the lapsed copyright, it is now in the public domain. The film has been remastered multiple times and is freely available online. Plot Ten people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr. and Mrs. Owen. They settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers, but their hosts are absent. When the guests sit down to dinner, they notice the centerpiece, ten figurines of Indians. Thomas puts on a gramophone record, through which a man's voice accuses them all of murder: General Sir John Mandrake, of ordering his wife's lover, a lieutenant under his command, to his death Emily Brent, of the death of her young nephew Dr. Edward G. Armstrong, of drunkenness which resulted in a patient dying Prince Nikita Starloff, of killing a couple while speeding Vera Claythorne, of murdering her sister's fiancé Judge Francis J. Quinncannon, of being responsible for the hanging of an innocent man Philip Lombard, of killing 21 South African tribesmen William H. Blore, of perjury, resulting in an innocent man's death Thomas and Ethel Rogers, of the demise of their previous employer, an invalid It becomes apparent that none of the ten knows or has even seen "U. N. Owen"; they then realize the name stands for "unknown." They also cannot leave the island, as Rogers informs them that the boat will not return until Monday, and it is only Friday. Starloff admits his guilt, then dies from his drink, which was poisoned. The next morning, it is discovered that Mrs. Rogers died in her sleep. The guests notice that one figurine is broken and another missing after the two deaths. With the two deaths matching the Ten Little Indians nursery rhyme, they search the island for "Mr. Owen" without success. After General Mandrake is stabbed to death, the judge declares that Owen must be one of them.

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And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1939 mystery novel of the same name, directed by René Clair. It was released in the United Kingdom as Ten Little Indians, in keeping with the third United Kingdom title of Christie's novel. The film was produced by 20th Century Fox and due to the lapsed copyright, it is now in the public domain. The film has been remastered multiple times and is freely available online. Plot Ten people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr. and Mrs. Owen. They settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers, but their hosts are absent. When the guests sit down to dinner, they notice the centerpiece, ten figurines of Indians. Thomas puts on a gramophone record, through which a man's voice accuses them all of murder: General Sir John Mandrake, of ordering his wife's lover, a lieutenant under his command, to his death Emily Brent, of the death of her young nephew Dr. Edward G. Armstrong, of drunkenness which resulted in a patient dying Prince Nikita Starloff, of killing a couple while speeding Vera Claythorne, of murdering her sister's fiancé Judge Francis J. Quinncannon, of being responsible for the hanging of an innocent man Philip Lombard, of killing 21 South African tribesmen William H. Blore, of perjury, resulting in an innocent man's death Thomas and Ethel Rogers, of the demise of their previous employer, an invalid It becomes apparent that none of the ten knows or has even seen "U. N. Owen"; they then realize the name stands for "unknown." They also cannot leave the island, as Rogers informs them that the boat will not return until Monday, and it is only Friday. Starloff admits his guilt, then dies from his drink, which was poisoned. The next morning, it is discovered that Mrs. Rogers died in her sleep. The guests notice that one figurine is broken and another missing after the two deaths. With the two deaths matching the Ten Little Indians nursery rhyme, they search the island for "Mr. Owen" without success. After General Mandrake is stabbed to death, the judge declares that Owen must be one of them.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).