On a hot day in late August 1939, eight people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small, isolated island off the coast of Devon, England.
What follows is a series of murders. One of the masterpieces by Agatha Christie ‘And Then There Were None’ was screened on Wednesday.
Marking the second day of the Ekagra Film Festival, the movie was screened at Bharat Bhavan. And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling mystery novel of the same name, directed by René Clair.
Eight good looking people are invited to an isolated island by a Mr and Mrs Owen.
The guests settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers, but their hosts are absent. When the guests sit down to dinner, they notice the centre piece, ten figurines of soldiers arranged in a circle. Afterward, Thomas Rogers puts on a gramophone record, from which a voice accuses everyone present of murder. Shortly after this, one of the party dies from poisoning and then more and more people are murdered, all in methods synonymous with a nursery rhyme the island is named after and the murderer removes a figurine from the dining table each time someone is killed. The guests decide to leave, but Rogers informs them that the boat will not return until Monday, and it is only Friday.