| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hello all
I'm trying to identify a film I saw as a teenager (I'm 40 now).
I've always thought it was Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians...but, having researched on IMDB & other sites I'm not so sure...
Here's what I THINK I know...
James Mason (or someone who looked like him) was in it...and I think he was the killer.
There were figurines being smashed as people were killed.
The final shot was of someone hanging in a room; and through the doorway you could see another character walking in the garden...a character thought to be dead.
Help!
I'm probably remembering bits of different movies and they've all merged together in my head...but, any help would be appreciated. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 585 |
| | Posted: | | | | Having read the book and played the PC game based on the book recently, it sure seems like you're remembering Ten Little Indians all right.
It's also known by the name "And Then There Was None" so you may want to search under that as well.
There's a 1945 version of ATTWN and a 1965 version of Ten Little Indians. It wouldn't surprise me to find there's been similar movies based on the idea, but to capture as much as you mentioned, it has to be something close to the originals. | | | "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" - Douglas Bader
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have the 1965 version "Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians" a Warner home Entertainment release 3/14/2006, 90 minutes. I got it from Deep Discount DVD, I think one of their sales. It's not bad, a little better than average. I collect mystery series, so I had to have it
Cast:
Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lombard
Shirley Eaton as Ann Clyde
Fabian as Mike Raven
Leo Genn as General Mandrake
Stanley Holloway as William Blore
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Judge Cannon
Daliah Lavi as Ilona Bergen
Dennis Price as Dr. Armstrong
Marianne Hoppe as Frau Grohmann
Mario Adorf as Herr Grohmann
Christopher Lee as 'Mr. Owen' (voice, uncredited) | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | That definitely sounds like "And Then There Were None" - IMDB for some reason list it under the German title here. James Mason's not in it - but I think you're thinking of the Richard Attenborough character. This film definitely contains the smashed figurines on the dining table and the final shot you describe too. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 291 |
| | Posted: | | | | that was yet another version. i havein't seen the 1974 version all the way through (it was pretty bad) so i don't know whether the last one alive actually hanged themselves; the earlier versions didn't get to the hanging. the book's ending was altered to give the lovebirds a happily ever after... hate when they do that...  krik  | | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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