FILM

And then there were none (USA) | (97 min; 1945; b/w; English)

Director: René Clair

With Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Houston, Louis Heyward

Recipient of the Golden Leopard Award for Best Film and Award for Best Direction, Locarno International Film Festival 1946
Film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s bestselling 1939 mystery novel of the same name. Seven guests, a newly hired personal secretary and two staff are gathered for a weekend on an isolated island by the hosts, the Owens, who are delayed. At dinner, a record is played and the host's message alleges that all of the people present are guilty of murder, and suddenly the first of them is dead, then the next. It seems that one of them is the murderer