And Then There Were None

I have a thing for old b/w versions of the stories of Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, Edgar Wallace and the likes. Hence, a 1945 version of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians works for me.

This is a version of said story that one could easily imagine as an on stage production. The setting is very limited (a house indoors and out, a small boat) and it is played out like a stage production. That is not necessarily a bad thing.

The material relies heavily on acting and not on surroundings. It has an air of sophistication about it that would nowadays be replaced by grisly details and lots of movie blood (one guy is said to be cut in half!).

Weirdly enough, this genre does not work for me in book form, though. Never made it through a single Christie book.

6/10