The Hendersonville Film Society will show And Then There Were None on Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
And Then There Were None
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In Brief: It’s rare that Agatha Christie’s books have been given a break on the movie screen, but René Clair’s 1945 filming of And Then There Were None definitely did right by Dame Agatha. For that matter, it also did right by its splendid roster of great character actors, and it gave French filmmaker Clair one of his few wholly successful English-language films. While much of what makes the movie work stems from the screenplay by Dudley Nichols (best known for his work with John Ford), this is one of those rare movies where a great deal of the wit is conveyed visually. This is a film without a wasted shot or a careless composition. It’s a master class in how to shoot a movie. Of course, it helps no end that the source novel — and Christie’s revamped stage version of the story — offers such rich material. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on Jun. 7, 2016.
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| Genre: | Mystery |
| Director: | René Clair |
| Starring: | Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, June Duprez, Roland Young, Richard Haydn, Mischa Auer |
| Rated: | NR |
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