In the cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, June Duprez, Louis Hayward, Judith Anderson, Roland Young, and C. The ending, as to be expected from a Hollywood production, isn’t nearly as grim as the one found in the novel. Loretta Young: Conservative Catholic Actress in Suggestive Movies The best-known and best-regarded film version of And Then There Were None is René Clair’s 1945 release, adapted by Dudley Nichols (Oscar winner for The Informer) and distributed by 20th Century Fox itself – which, curiously, allowed the movie’s copyright to lapse. Well, in the past each one of them had committed a murder, but had succeeded – until then – in evading punishment. One by one, each guest meets sudden death.Īfter a(n absurdly long) while, the survivors realize that one of them is responsible for the murder rampage.
In Agatha Christie’s novel, 10 strangers find themselves as guests of a mysterious – and unseen – host who had lured them under false pretenses to a little, isolated island off England’s Devon coast. And Then There Were None is supposed to have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, thus holding the record as the best-selling mystery novel in history. The source for this story is, which adds that Tyldum himself “helped hone the pitch” for the acquisition while Eric Heisserer ( A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010, The Thing 2011) will handle the screenplay adaptation.
Morten Tyldum, this year’s Best Director Academy Award nominee for The Imitation Game, is reportedly set to direct.
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20th Century Fox has acquired the movie rights to the literary suspense thriller first published in the U.K. One of the best-known Agatha Christie novels, And Then There Were None will be getting another big-screen transfer.
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