Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
(And Then There Were None)
(And Then There Were None)
Friday, October 22 and Saturday, October 23
Dinner at 6:30 pm
Performance at 7:30 pm
Admission $25.00
Tickets go on sale Monday, September 27
in the library’s Adult Services Department
Cash….. Check…..MC/VISA
For further information and/or tickets
call 205-332-6625
Editorial Reviews
The third of many film and TV adaptations of the popular Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians 
is the title of the American edition, the hit play, and most of the movies), this 1965 version moves the action from a remote island to an isolated ski resort and otherwise rearranges the plot. The basic premise, however, remains the same. Ten strangers, eight of them guests and two of them servants, are lured to a dinner party and then trapped there to be killed one at a time by an unseen host who wishes to punish them for their disparate perceived crimes. The old nursery rhyme provides both the framing device, and, in the source material, the method of execution for each victim. 
In this version, however, the revised murder scenes include a hapless servant (Marianne Hoppe) falling to her death from a booby-trapped ski lift. Ten Little Indians features a varied cast that ranges from future Bond girls Shirley Eaton and Daliah Lavi to former teen idol Fabian and former Wyatt Earp TV star Hugh O'Brian. It also reunites My Fair Lady co-stars Stanley Holloway and Wilfrid Hyde-White. The film was the final directorial effort of George Pollock, who had previously helmed several adaptations of Christie's popular Miss Marple mysteries, starting with 1962's Murder, She Said. Christopher Lee makes an uncredited appearance as the recorded voice of absentee host/villain Mr. Owen. Despite its mountain setting, the picture was filmed in Ireland. Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide ~Barnes & Noble websiteGet the Ten Little Indians book in our catalog.
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