Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.
Direction
René Clair turns a drawing room into a pressure cooker with shadows.
Writing
Agatha Christie's ruthless plotting, barely softened for 1940s Hollywood.
Production
That art deco island mansion — beauty masking rot, perfectly.
Director
René Clair
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christie herself called this her hardest plot to write; the novel's original ending was so bleak that stage adaptations changed it for decades.
The 'Ten Little Indians' nursery rhyme was altered multiple times across versions — the 1945 film uses 'Ten Little N*****s' from the original UK novel, already softened for American audiences.
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