The suavity of these gentlemen and their calculating jockeying under strain make for the highest amusement and clarity in this film. And within the limited framework of this plainly theatrical plot, they have put a set of characters who display the clammy drollery of dread.Best and most active of the performers are Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald, who play an inebriate doctor and a judge, respectively. Clair and his script-writer, Dudley Nichols, have fetched their fun from fear and trembling, not from gore. The temptation to the horrifying is intelligently dismissed Mr. The consequent suspense may be presumed.Out of this lethal hocus-pocus, Rene Clair has produced an exciting film and has directed a splendid cast in it with humor and a light macabre touch. Needless to say, the confusion of the dwindling survivors mounts as each little Indian strangely crumbles. (You know the one-"Ten Little Indians"-an oddly savage jingle for tots.)Thus, while the score is quaintly tallied on a china centerpiece, the victims are clipped off like clockwork and no one apparently knows why or how. And before they are comfortably settled, it becomes disturbingly clear that they are marked for annihilation, one by one, according to the pattern of a nursery rhyme. No one of them knows the others each is there at the hest of an unknown host. Ten persons are isolated in a house on an island off the English coast. For of all the bloodthirsty pictures that have come along in quite some time, this multiple murderous exhibit is given most refreshingly to drink.Based on an Agatha Christie story, which is a favorite with mystery-fiction fans, it is not a gore guzzler, however. The cat is also seen sitting on the staircase as several of the guests walk upstairs.The Roxy certainly picked the right day on which to open "And Then There Were None." Black cats and Hallowe'en goblins were precisely the attendants for this film, and one look at it should have sent them back to spooking with uplifted morale. Needless to say, Emily is no longer in any shape to care. When they go to investigate, the cat has been playing with the yarn and rolled it off the landing. Later they see the ball of yarn roll over the edge of the landing upstairs. One of the guests, an older woman named Emily Brent (Judith Anderson) is seen knitting and the cat likes to play with the ball of yarn on the floor.Įmily finally takes the yarn from the cat and goes to bed. As they look, the cat peeks out from amongst the logs.
They check a small shed outside and think they hear something in the woodpile. Owen, is on the island with them they search for the man.
When several of the men become convinced that their host, the mysterious Mr. He picks up the cat and carries it as he walks from his room to the corridor. The cat is next seen outside the bedroom window of Judge Quincannon in the morning.
The nameless cat is first seen when the butler opens a door to enter the dining room and the cat walks in ahead of him. They soon learn they are there to pay for past crimes and one by one they find themselves being murdered.Ĭat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Throughout much of the film a small tabby cat is seen as the eleventh guest, although it is not clear how the cat came to be in the estate or on the island for that matter. Ten people are invited to a secluded island for a weekend without knowing exactly why. Synopsis: Based on Agatha Christie’s classic mystery. Starring: Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, June DuprezĬat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film (but not the end!)
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