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And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write. [2] It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, [3] after an 1869 minstrel song that serves as a major plot element.
Charles Dance as Justice Lawrence John Wargrave, a judge charged with sentencing an innocent man to death. Maeve Dermody as Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, a former governess charged with intentionally allowing her ward to drown. Burn Gorman as Detective Sergeant William Henry Blore, a police officer charged with murdering a suspect in his custody.
Eight people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr and Mrs Owen.They settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers (a married couple), but their hosts are absent.
Donald Pleasence as Justice Lawrence Wargrave. Accused of having sentenced an innocent man, Edward Seton, to death by hanging. Frank Stallone as Captain Philip Lombard. . Accused of being responsible for the deaths of 21 men, members of an East India
Dying, he wants to mete out justice personally to criminals who have escaped punishment, who he has invited to the island. The alternate ending details the events of the book, And Then There Were None, wherein all the guests on the island are killed by Wargrave except for the last two, Vera and Lombard. Vera then shoots Lombard, thinking him ...
Sad Cypress is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March 1940 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
Whitehead's film appearances have included The Raging Moon (1971), Kidnapped (1971), the vengeful woodsman in And Now the Screaming Starts! (1972), S.O.S. Titanic (1979) as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews (whom Whitehead strongly resembled), Inside the Third Reich (1982), Shooting Fish (1997) and Love/Loss (2010).
Justice Sir Francis Brittain in Bruce Hamilton's 1949 novel Hanging Judge; the novel was adapted for the stage by Raymond Massey in 1952, and Boris Karloff played Justice Brittain in the BBC Radio adaptation of the play in 1953. [9] Critic Stanley Crouch's 1990 essay collection entitled Notes of a Hanging Judge