Ten Little Indians

1989
PG
1h 40m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

4,7/10

1,6 k

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Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

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Crime Mystery Thriller

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueTen people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

4,7/10

1,6 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
The original script was much more faithful to the original Agatha Christie novel with the setting on an island and the original grim conclusion of the book. However, producer Harry Alan Towers changed it at the last second when he realized that it would be cheaper to shoot in the African outback and that the novel's ending is less marketable than Christie's happier resolution from the play version of the story.

Gaffes
When the survivors are burying the first victim, one of them comments that they "didn't even know" the person's first name. During the accusation scene, all ten characters are present and all ten characters' full names are used, but perhaps that person forgot due to the stress (or the copious amount of alcohol they drank), or they weren't paying attention during the recording.

Citations
Anthony Marston: Well, well. It appears no one knows our host. How gauche. Do I hear a martini calling?

Connexions
Featured in Banánové rybicky: Jak prezít manzelství (1999)

Bandes originales
Mad Dogs And Englishmen
Written, Performed and Produced by Noël Coward
Also performed by Neil McCarthy

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4/10

The only reason to watch this film is to earn the right to pan it.

For the most part this film is populated by some wonderful character actors.

Agatha Christie's original storyline is beyond reproach.

With building blocks like that to work with it's a wonder that director Alan Birkinshaw wasn't able to deliver something a little closer to the quality that thousands of Agatha Christie fans have come to expect. "Ten Little Indians" failed at nearly every level, from a poor script, to inept blocking and unimaginative camera angles, to cheap dime store sets and props, to trying to sensationalize Christie's wit by replacing it with crude graphic violence.

There have been other film adaptations of "Ten Little Indians" all of them head and shoulders above this one. On three prior occasions I've tried to sit through this film but without success. Today, just after having seen "And Then There Were None" (an excellent adaptation of "Ten Little Indians") Birkinshaw's version came on and I determined to sit through it all the way. My reward for that ordeal was to have the right to pan it publicly.