11/19/2023 0 Comments And then there were none movie 2017![]() Oddly enough, Lombard’s luggage – a bag – has the initials CM on them. Probably the most fascinated by Vera is Philip Lombard (Louis Hayward), a young man who used to be in the army, though no longer. Like the others – all of whom have come here on invitations from long-lost friends or from other obscure sources – Vera has never seen the Owens. She tells the others that Mrs Owen had approached an employment agency for a secretary, and it is through the agency that she’s been given this job. It turns out, too, that Vera is the only one in the group who’s an employee of the Owens. This is a young, poised and pretty young lady, and it’s obvious at a glance that she’s going to be popular with the men in the group. The other woman in the group, Vera Claythorne (June Duprez) is nothing like Ms Brent. Ms Brent is self-righteous in the extreme and turns up her nose at just about everything and everybody in the house. While the others may not be openly disapproving of Nikki (as he likes to be called), one of the ladies – Emily Brent (one of my favourite character actresses, Judith Anderson) makes no bones about the fact that she considers him lowlife – and lowlife of the lowest order. ![]() He admits that he is here as a ‘professional guest’. This man is the flighty, frivolous sort with too much time and money on his hands, no conscience to speak of, and little to do except enjoy himself. He has a lifetime of judicial experience behind him.ĭiametrically opposite to the sharp-witted, keen-eyed judge is ‘the Russian’, Prince Nikita Starloff (Mischa Auer). Justice Quincannon has all his wits about him – and they’re very sharp too. Then, another retiree, but very different from the general: a judge, Quincannon (Barry Fitzgerald). He’s pretty senile, terribly hard of hearing, and a widower. Over the course of the evening, we get to learn a little more about these people.įirst of all, there is the retired old General Sir John Mandrake (C Aubrey Smith). ![]() Mr and Mrs Rogers show the guests up to their respective rooms, and later in the evening (there’s no sign of their hosts yet), the guests congregate in the drawing room for pre-dinner cocktails, and later, dinner. They were employed by letter, have received their instructions by letter too, and have been told that Mr and Mrs Owen will arrive at the island later that evening. (c) Neither of the Rogerses have seen the Owens. (b) Rogers and his wife are the only servants in the house ![]() (a) This group that’s landed on the island are actually strangers to each other So the motorboat goes off, and the eight newcomers make their way up to the house, where they are welcomed by the butler, Rogers (Richard Haydn, who – 20 years later – played the role of Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music) and Rogers’s wife (Queenie Leonard). Those were his instructions, nothing more. It turns out that he had been hired by the owner of the house, a Mr Owen, to bring this group of strangers out to this deserted island with its lone house. They look up at the large house standing overlooking the sea, and are surprised when the sailor tells them that he’ll be getting along now. There are eight of them: two women and six men. The boat finally docks, and the man who’s been sailing it helps the passengers off. It’s too windy and the sea is tossing the boat about too violently for any conversation to be held, but from the somewhat polite – but distant – smiles that the passengers give each other, it’s obvious that this isn’t a party of old friends out on a weekend jaunt. The film begins in a motorboat which is making its way out to a lonely little island just off the coast. But for those of you who (like me) are purists and don’t like any toying around with good plots – even if it’s been done by the author herself – there are some differences, too. For those of you who’ve read and enjoyed the book, you’ll be glad to know that it’s pretty much the same. This adaptation is the earliest of them all, and was based on a stage adaptation that Agatha Christie herself wrote. Christie’s book (originally titled Ten Little Niggers) is supposed to be the best-selling book of all time – 100 million copies sold to date, and with several cinematic adaptations as well. And Then There Were None is a classic suspense film, based on Agatha Christie’s book of the same name. Since The Train was, all said and done (though I’m not convinced about it) a suspense film, I decided to stick to that genre for this post as well.
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