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Ten Little Indians is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Alan Birkinshaw released in USA on 29 november 1989 with Donald Pleasence

Ten Little Indians (1989)

Ten Little Indians
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Released in USA 29 november 1989
Length 1h38
Directed by
Genres Thriller,    Crime
Rating47% 2.3602952.3602952.3602952.3602952.360295

Ten Little Indians is a 1989 mystery film, and the fifth screen adaptation (including the 1987 Russian version Desyat Negrityat) of Agatha Christie's famous novel. It was the third version to be produced by Harry Alan Towers, following his 1965 and 1974 adaptations.

In the opening credits, it is stated that this film is based on Christie's stage adaptation and makes no mention of the earlier novel, perhaps because the film's climax is taken almost verbatim from the stage script. (Other western adaptations, while all still using an upbeat finale, have significantly toned down the action-packed climax Christie used in the play.)

Harry Alan Towers commissioned the original script that used the novel's ending (in which Lombard gets shot and Vera hangs herself) and setting the action on an island. However, both of these were changed at the last minute. This version also introduced a lesbian affair. Herbert Lom, who plays the General here, previously starred in the 1974 version as Dr. Armstrong.

As of December 2013, this production has been released on VHS and laserdisc, but not yet on DVD.

Synopsis

A group of ten disparate people, strangers to each other, have all been summoned by a mysterious host named Mr. Owen to travel to Africa and join him on a safari he is hosting. Things turn ominous from the beginning, however. First their native guides abandon them, then more natives cut a bridge line across a deep ravine (their only way in and out of camp). As a result, the ten guests find themselves isolated in their hunting camp. In addition, their host, Mr. Owen, is strangely absent. Following their dinner, by means of a gramophone recording, an inhuman voice accuses each person of a murder that they each had caused and escaped justice. Events go from being unsettling to deadly when the guests start dying one by one in the fashion of the English Nursery Rhyme 'Ten Little Indians'. As each death occurs, the ten small Indian dolls that adorn the centre of the dining table disappear as each person dies which leads the guests to realize that they are being executed at the hands of a homicidal maniac among them - and that perhaps Mr. Owen is, in fact, one of them.

Actors

Donald Pleasence

(Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave)Frank Stallone

(Capt. Philip Lombard)Brenda Vaccaro

(Marion Marshall)Herbert Lom

(Gen. Brancko Romensky)Warren Berlinger

(Det. William Henry Blore)
And :
Paul L. Smith
Moira Lister
Neil McCarthy
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