Ten Little Indians (1989 film)

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name = Ten Little Indians


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producer = Harry Alan Towers
director = Alan Birkinshaw
writer = Novel & stage play:
Agatha Christie
Screenplay:
Jackson Hunsicker
Gerry O'Hara
starring = Donald Pleasance
Frank Stallone
Sarah Maur Thorp
Brenda Vaccaro
Herbert Lom
Warren Berlinger
Yehuda Elfroni
Paul L. Smith
Moira Lister
Neil McCarthy
music = Noel Coward
cinematography = Arthur Lavis
editing = Penelope Shaw | distributor = Cannon
released = 1989 (USA)
runtime = 98 min.
country = UK
language = English
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imdb_id = 0098454

"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 the film is based on Christie's stage adaptation and makes no mention of her 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.)

Herbert Lom, who plays the General here, starred in the 1974 version as Dr. Armstrong.

Plot

The plot remains the same as in all previous adaptations. As he did in his other versions, producer Towers has yet again changed the locale of the action, this time to the African savannah.

A group of 10 disparate people, strangers to each other, have all traveled to Africa believing they have won a fabulous vacation safari. Things turn ominous from the beginning, however. First their native guides abandon them, more natives cut a bridge line across a deep canyon (their only way in and out of camp), and their host is strangely absent. Then events go from being unsettling to deadly when the guests start dying one at a time, and those who remain realize that they are being slaughtered one by one...but who is responsible?

Cast

*Donald Pleasance...Justice Wargrave
*Frank Stallone...Phillip Lombard
*Sarah Maur Thorp...Vera Claythorne
*Brenda Vaccaro...Emily Brent
*Herbert Lom...General Macarthur
*Warren Berlinger...Mr. Blore
*Yehuda Elfroni...Dr. Armstrong
*Paul L. Smith...Thomas Rogers
*Moira Lister...Ethel Rogers
*Neil McCarthy...Tony Marston