Still image from the 1966 film Ten Little Indians.

Ten Little Indians

Directed by George Pollock

Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.

1966 1h 29m Suspense/Mystery TV-14

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CAST
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George Pollock, Director
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George Pollock
Director

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Hugh O'brian, Hugh Lombard
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Hugh O'brian
Hugh Lombard

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Shirley Eaton, Ann Clyde
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Shirley Eaton
Ann Clyde

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Fabian, Mike Raven
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Fabian
Mike Raven

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Leo Genn, General Mandrake
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Leo Genn
General Mandrake

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Stanley Holloway, William Blore
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Stanley Holloway
William Blore

FULL SYNOPSIS

Eight strangers are invited to spend the weekend at an Austrian castle in the Alps. At the chateau, accessible only by cable car, they are received by the Grohmanns, a servant couple who have never seen their employer. As the holiday commences the guests assemble to hear the host's recorded welcome. Among them are singer Mike Raven, Judge Cannon, private investigator William Blore, actress Ilona Bergen, alcoholic Dr. Armstrong, retired General Mandrake, secretary Ann Clyde, and the American Hugh Lombard. In his message their host discloses that each is a murderer and will be executed over the weekend. Guests and servants are slain in rapid succession, until only Ann and Lombard remain. Although they have fallen in love, the secretary shoots the American. Returning to the castle, she finds the presumably slain jurist awaiting her. Certain of Lombard's death, Cannon proclaims himself the host. Reminding Ann that she will undoubtedly be convicted of the murders, the magistrate reveals that he has poisoned himself and will be dead upon arrival of the authorities. As the judge speaks, the American enters the room. While awaiting the police, the lovers describe their mutual defense pact and verify their common innocence.


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Mystery writer Agatha Christie can lay claim to having penned the biggest-selling mystery of all time, Ten Little Indians, first published in England in 1939. The book was serialized in both British and American magazines under the title And Then There Were None. An instant best-seller, Christie adapted the story for the stage in 1943, and two years later Twentieth Century Fox released a widely praised adaptation, And Then There Were None (1945), directed by Rene Clair. Christie's works have never fallen out of favor, but she was enjoying a resurgence at the box office in the early 1960s, thanks to a series of British films featuring her Miss Marple character. This series, which starred Margaret Rutherford, was popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Producer Harry Alan Towers held the rights to Ten Little Indians, and wisely brought in director George Pollock, who had just helmed the Miss Marple series, to film an update featuring a screenplay by Peter Yeldham and Towers himself (as "Peter Welbeck"). The makers of Ten Little Indians (1965, aka Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians) intentionally crafted an unconventional adaptation, emphasizing the jet-set aspect of the cast of characters. They strived to capitalize on a mini-genre popular in the early 1960s and the film comes off as something like The V.I.P.s (1963)-as-a-Murder-Mystery. The setting is changed from the remote island of the novel to an isolated Alpine chalet. Ten Little Indians certainly doesn't open l...

NOTES

Filmed in Ireland. Released in Great Britain in 1966. British sources list Towers as producer, and U. S. sources credit Unger. Christie's novel also inspired the 1945 U. S. film And Then There Were None. Peter Welbeck is a pseudonym for Harry Alan Towers. One source indicates that the screenplay is based on an adaptation by Welbeck of Dudley Nichols' script for the earlier film.

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