And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christieliterary work· published 1939
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And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, after the children's counting rhyme and minstrel song, which serves as a major element of the plot. A US edition was released in January 1940 with the title And Then There Were None, which is taken from the last five words of the song. All successive American reprints and adaptations use that title, except for the Pocket Books paperbacks published between 1964 and 1986, which appeared under the title Ten Little Indians.
Adaptations (13)
And Then There Were None has been adapted 13 times, across film, television film, miniseries, and television series, from 1945 to 2020. The most recent is They Were Ten (2020).
And Then There Were None1945 · film · 97 min · dir. René Clair · IMDb ↗IMDb7.3100%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.
Ten Little Niggers1949 · television film · 90 min · dir. Kevin Sheldon · IMDb ↗IMDb7.5Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. They soon find something very odd about their invitations, and then they start to die, one by one. But who is the murderer and where is he hiding.
Ana El-Adala1961 · film · 90 min · dir. Husain Sidqi · IMDb ↗The events of the film take place in a dramatic setting on New Year's Eve, where a group of the elite of society celebrate in the palace of a wealthy man (Munir Ezzat), and there the course of events changes, as the life of each of the invitees is at stake, after an unknown person reveals the truth about each of them through a recording that is broadcast after they enter the palace, and decides to achieve justice with his own hands, so he takes revenge on each of them, and reveals their sins to each other.
And Then There Were None1974 · film · 98 min · dir. Peter Collinson · IMDb ↗IMDb5.7Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Sabotage2014 · film · 109 min · dir. David Ayer · IMDb ↗John 'Breacher' Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
Nine2015 · film · dir. Ihab Radhi · IMDb ↗IMDb6.2Nine people with mutual history meet in one place, which eventually reveals a lot of dark secrets that were hidden for too long. A ruthless battle ensues between them, but who will finally have the upper hand?
And Then There Were None2015 · miniseries · 58 min · IMDb ↗IMDb7.8Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably named Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die -- one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: '... and then there were none.
They Were Ten2020 · television series · 52 min · IMDb ↗IMDb5.8Ten people, five women, five men, are invited to a luxury hotel on a deserted tropical island. They soon realize they are completely isolated, cut off from the rest of the word and all means of communication, which rapidly becomes their worst nightmare.
Lost ID? · television series · 215 min · IMDb ↗IMDb5.810 men and women are called to Natural Island Hotel on the isolated island Heitaijima off Yachijojima by the owner Nanao Shin. They take the dinner that has been prepared while filled with a mix of expectation and anxiety about what is going to happen and why they have been invited to this island. Then they suddenly start to hear a mysterious voice reveal their past crimes. As the 10 of them go through past incidents in their mind, one of the invited guests is murdered before their eyes. That seems to be the catalyst for the murder of another guest and then yet another. Several days after the invited guests came to Heitaijima, police head over to the island following the report of murders. They discover 10 murdered bodies on this big “locked room”. Who is the murderer and why did these 10 people have to be gathered and killed? ~ Based on the novel "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, published in 1943.
