Armstrong intimates his suspicions of Ann, which Lombard angrily rebuffs. In the confusion, Judge Cannon is found with a gunshot wound to his head.ĭr. At dinner, each person reveals the nature of their accusations, but before Ann can attest to her crime, she separates from the group to her room, where she screams upon discovering an Indian decoy hung from the ceiling. By now, the five remaining guests fall under distrust of one another, and alliances are formed as the generator shuts down, casting the mansion into total darkness. Ilona bitterly confesses to having driven her husband to suicide, and is later found dead in her bedroom, killed with a syringe. Ann Clyde, the secretary, enters into a romantic relationship with engineer Hugh Lombard as they and the others begin a deadly cat-and-mouse game, ultimately deducing that Owen is not their host but, in reality, one of them.Īfter falling under suspicion from the others, Grohmann attempts to make his escape down the mountain peak, Devil's Leap, ending in his death after his lifeline is severed with an axe. It becomes clear that their unseen killer is following the nursery rhyme. General Mandrake conducts a search of the chalet's catacombs, splitting everyone into pairs, ultimately leading to his demise, stabbed after being led to a planted distraction (a cat). In the morning, the tram cable is cut, killing the cook, Mrs. Mike Raven chokes after taking a drink and dies, and a small Indian figurine from the centerpiece tray is broken away. A man identifying himself as Owen reveals that each of the 10 guests has a scandalous secret, their involvement in various innocent people's deaths. At exactly 9 p.m., as instructed, Grohmann switches on a hidden tape recording. Dinner is served by the butler Grohmann on a tray adorned with ten little Indian figurines, as well. They discover that none of them has actually ever met Owen, including his secretary as well as a married housekeeper and cook, all hired through an agency.įramed copies of the children's nursery rhyme ' Ten Little Indians' are hung on the walls of each guest's bedroom. Ten people travel by aerial tramway to a snowbound mansion, invited there by a Mr. Actor Christopher Lee (uncredited) provided the pre-recorded gramophone voice of 'Mr. This version is also the first adaptation of the novel to show the murders on screen. Unger, with co-producer Harry Alan Towers also credited as co-writer under his pen name Peter Welbeck.Īlthough its background story is the same as the 1945 adaptation ( And Then There Were None), with ten people invited to a remote location by a mysterious stranger, this one takes place on an isolated snowy mountain. It is the second film version of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel.

Ten Little Indians is a 1965 British crime mystery film directed by George Pollock.

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