We need to start re-watching the "blockbusters" on the 1940's and 50's. It's amazing how many current movie story-lines and techniques have been be done before.
Based on Agatha Christie's play, Ten Little Indians, which I now want to read, And Then There Were None is a high suspence mystery film with what I can only assume was an all-star cast of 1945.
The story centers on ten strangers, all alone at a mansion on an island, who recieve an ominous recording accusing them all of murder. One by one, a sort of vigilante justice is enacted on the ten paranoid guests of the island. As the number of survivors dwindles, suspisions and accusations as to who the murder is rise, until there is only one.
The great thing about this story is how the viewer is just about as "in the dark" as the characters whose lives are in peril. Black and white films have never seemed so appropriate.
Sergio del Limonar
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