And Then There Were None Page #3

Synopsis: Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn't on the island. At dinner a record is played, by that all the people are accused of murder, suddenly the first of them is dead, then the next... It seems to be that one of them is the murderer Mr. U. N. Own, but the person in suspect is always the person who is murdered next. At last only two people seem to be left.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): René Clair
Production: VCI
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.6
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Year:
1945
97 min
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the same conclusion as you did.

Mr. Owen is hiding,

may be inside this house.

I fear that I am

being watched. Secretly.

What do you see?

I thought I heard a

strange voice.

Gentlemen, I have come to the

conclusion that ...

... the invisible Mr. Owen

is hiding somewhere on the island.

Extraordinary. I was

looking for you to tell you the same thing.

- That is what I think so.

- Me, too.

We all come to the

same conclusion.

We must find

his place of concealment.

Immediately. So long as

he is at large ...

... we all face

a mortal danger.

Do you hear that?

Hello, puss. Looking

for a mouse? So are we.

Well, I like to know it is whether

we are the cat or the mouse.

He is not in his room.

I can't find the General .

I wonder where the old boy....

I do not know. I don't think he even knows

where he is himself.

Nothing in there.

But the russian ...

... I keep hearing the song

he was singing last night.

-10 little indians.

- Certainly, it was his swan song.

One thing is certain. He is not

inside.

Therefore, he must be

outside.

Brilliant thinking, Blore!

I am afraid there is no use for

watching the boat. One comes on Monday.

No boat will ever come,

Juliet.

We're here forever.

What made you love him, Juliet?

Sir John!

Oh, Forgive me my child. You

do not understand.

-- Nobody!

-- Not a living thing!

Not even a

hiding place!

Not even a seagull

could hide down there.

I do not understand.

Maybe we have been wrong!

It was a nightmare out of

our imagination.

Two people dead

is not imagination!

The Russian might have commited suicide.

And Mrs. Rogers?

Well, you didn't give her an

overdose last night, did you?

Doctors can't afford to

make mistakes of that kind.

We can not blunder

the detectives sometimes do.

It wouldn't be the first mistake if

that gramophone record is to be believed.

Gentlemen, gentlemen, there is no time

for quarelling!

Let's face it, we're

in a trap.

You shouldn't forget the 10 indians

on the dinner table.

That's right. Mr. Owen's hand

is plain to see.

Yes, but where is

Mr. Owen himself?

If Mr. Owen is on this

island, he catches death of cold.

If this is not supposed to be a joke,

I don't see the point.

All we have to do is to keep quiet

and hear him sneeze.

I'm sorry. It is only cold meat

and salad, that was the best I could.

All right, Rogers.

- Rogers, we are only 7 today.

- Oh, sorry.

-- Did you call the General Mandrake?

- I looked in his room ...

... but he is not there.

- Didn't he come in the house?

- I didn't see him, doctor.

After high tide he was moving around

on the beach.

- It seems quite abnormal.

- I know where he is.

You stay here, Miss.

Claythorne.

You say the General was behaving

very strangely?

Like a man

out of his mind.

In other words,

a lunatic.

The old boy was barmy.

"Then God destroys

first the mad man. "

And well? Aren't we looking for

a lunatic?

He said no boat

would ever come.

Then he knows something!

Maybe he is not as crazy as we think he is.

Doctor, you'd better

come with me.

Don't wait for us.

And don't wait

the General any longer.

Poisonous glass could

mean suicide.

An overdose of cyanide

might have been an accident.

But this instrument

which you saw me remove ...

... from the back of

the third victim ...

... means only one

thing:
murder.

Or an act of God.

My dear Lady, in my experience

of ill-doing, Providence ...

leaves the work ...

of punishment to us mortals.

Evidently, Mr. Owen

believes we were guilty of ...

... certain crimes which

the law can not touch ...

... and is pointed to himself

to execute justice.

That's why he had

enticed us to this island.

There is no one on

this island! I tell you! No one!

Doctor Armstrong!

What's it, man?

There is another Indian figure missing.

- That accounts for the General.

- I was expecting that.

You just said, there is

no one on this island. In the sense you mean,

no. Nevertheless I am now certain

that Mr. Owen is here.

How can he be here?

I do not believe in

the invisible man!

He is not invisible.

Mr. Owen could only come

to this island on one way.

Perfectly clear.

Mr. Owen is one

of us.

Do you have to do that?

I was studying Mr.

Owen's little scheme.

Maybe you know how

the General was killed.

My dear Blore,

Can't you read?

8 little indian boys travelling

in Devon, ...

one said he'd stay there ...

... and then there were 7.

The old soldier

stayed here, didn't he?

-- Am I disturbing your little game?

- Not at all, Blore.

Nothing clarifies mind like game of

precision ...

What game you are playing, judge?

-- We have come to the conclusion

that is, Doctor and I

... this sort of story is

a game of the mind.

Here we are. Eight of us

come to this island.

The Rogers were

waiting for us.

Do not forget,

waiting for us.

One of the 10 is

Mr. Owen.

I'd agree

on that.

Out of all of us, 3 persons

are definitely cleared.

-- Who?

-- The dead ones!

Our Russian friend,

Mrs. Rogers and the General.

-7 little indians left.

-6, one is Bogus.

Correct, sir. One of

us is Mr. Owen.

Which one?

-- Where is your alibi?

-- I'm not like you, Mr. Blore!

I am an honourable

professional man!

I fear, doctor, that

true is less than nothing.

I too am an

honourable person.

But doctors have

gone mad before now.

Judges have gone mad

and so the policemen.

And that NASA explorers,

Mr. Lombard?

You may leave me.

Why do you leave

Miss. Claythorne out of it?

- We don't.

-- And you, My dear lady?

I appreciate that nobody can

be exonerated without proof.

What about Rogers?

- That is what I was thinking.

- What do we know about him.

He put that record

on the gramophone, didn't he?

That's a fact!

How do we know that Rogers

did not lease this house ...

and pretended to be the ...

butler?

Oh, no, no! Bad

psychology!

You can rule

Rogers out definitely.

I do not see why.

Look at the shape

of his head.

He hasn't got brains

for it.

And do not forget the something else, sir.

My wife was one of the victims!

In my time, Rogers, I've had several of the husbands

who were guilty of killing their wives.

Well, If you put it that way,

Sir. They ...

They do sometimes drive ...

a man crazy.

We must suspect

each and every one of us.

Now I warn everybody

to be on his guard. If not,

We'll all go

the same way.

And Mr. Owen would soon

be all alone on this island.

Keep quite,

Miss. Clayhorne.

Aren't you afraid the others

would think you are playing in appropria...

I can't stand silence.

I have to do something.

Go on playing.

If any comfort to you, there is one person

who doesn't suspect you.

Thank you.

Aren't you going to return

the compliment?

I haven't made up my mind

about you, Mr. Lombard.

Who do you suspect?

One nearest the fire.

- I think you're wrong.

-- Who then?

A man who believes

in punishing crimes.

His dream might snap and

he wants to be executioner,

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Dudley Nichols

Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and director. more…

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