"Ten Little Indians (1989 film) Ten Little Indians is a 1989 mystery film directed by Alan Birkinshaw. The fourth English-language screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel ""And Then There Were None"", it was the third version to be produced by Harry Alan Towers, following his 1965 and 1974 adaptations. The opening credits state that this film is based on Christie's 1943 stage adaptation and make no mention of the novel itself, perhaps because the film's climax is taken almost verbatim from the stage script. (Most other film adaptations, while still using an upbeat finale, have significantly toned down the"
"book as ""Suspenseful and menacing detective-story-cum-thriller. The closed setting with the succession of deaths is here taken to its logical conclusion, and the dangers of ludicrousness and sheer reader-disbelief are skillfully avoided. Probably the best-known Christie, and justifiably among the most popular."" The original title of the mystery (""Ten Little Niggers"") was changed because it was offensive in the United States and some other places. Alison Light, a literary critic and feminist scholar, opined that Christie's original title and the setting on ""Nigger Island"" (later changed to ""Indian Island"" and ""Soldier Island"", variously) were integral to the work. These aspects"
"best-selling novel, with more than 100 million copies sold; it is also the world's best-selling mystery and one of the best-selling books of all time. Publications International lists the novel as the sixth best-selling title. The book and its adaptations have been released under various new names since the original publication, including Ten Little Indians (1946 play, Broadway performance and 1964 paperback book), Ten Little Soldiers and official title per the Agatha Christie Limited website, ""And Then There Were None"". UK editions continued to use the work's original title until the 1980s; the first UK edition to use the alternative"
"and adaptations use that title, except for the Pocket Books paperbacks published between 1964 and 1986, which appeared under the title Ten Little Indians. It is Christie's best-selling novel, with more than 100 million copies sold; it is also the world's best-selling mystery and one of the best-selling books of all time. Publications International lists the novel as the sixth best-selling title. On a hot 8 August in the late 1930s, eight people arrive on a small, isolated island off the Devon coast of England. Each has an invitation tailored to his or her personal circumstances, such as an offer"
"cut from the US release. And Then There Were None (1974 film) And Then There Were None (a.k.a. Ten Little Indians) is a 1974 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling 1939 mystery novel of the same name. The film was directed by Peter Collinson and produced by Harry Alan Towers. This was the second of three versions of Christie's novel to be adapted to the screen by producer Harry Alan Towers. Two film adaptations were previously released (a 1945 version by René Clair and the 1965 ""Ten Little Indians""). An American made-for-television version was broadcast in 1959. Towers produced a"
"And Then There Were None (1974 film) And Then There Were None (a.k.a. Ten Little Indians) is a 1974 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling 1939 mystery novel of the same name. The film was directed by Peter Collinson and produced by Harry Alan Towers. This was the second of three versions of Christie's novel to be adapted to the screen by producer Harry Alan Towers. Two film adaptations were previously released (a 1945 version by René Clair and the 1965 ""Ten Little Indians""). An American made-for-television version was broadcast in 1959. Towers produced a third version in 1989. A"
"which was the original British title of the book ""Ten Little Indians"" (later retitled ""And Then There Were None""). However, the episode of ""Information Please"" in which Struther used the original Christie title in her answer to a listener question was in fact broadcast February 7, 1941, while the majority of Struther's appearances on the show (at least eight more occasions) occurred after this incident, through January 29, 1945. As well as the creation of the character Mrs Miniver in a fortnightly column in ""The Times"", she is remembered for her hymns for children, including ""Lord of All Hopefulness"", ""When"
"killers. ""The Spiral Staircase"" also features an early use of jump scares. British writer Agatha Christie's particularly influential 1939 novel ""Ten Little Indians"" (adapted in 1945 as ""And Then There Were None""), centers on a group of people with secret pasts who are killed one-by-one on an isolated island. Each of the murders mirrors a verse from a nursery rhyme, merging the themes of childhood innocence and vengeful murder. ""House of Wax"" (1953), ""The Bad Seed"" (1956), ""Screaming Mimi"" (1958), ""Jack the Ripper"" (1959), and ""Cover Girl Killer"" (1959) all incorporated Christie's literary themes. Alfred Hitchcock's ""Psycho"" (1960) used visuals"
"the newspaper notice seeking her, which reinforces the story's setting in the 1930s as the author intended in her final revisions done in 1950. Christie’s original manuscript of ""Sleeping Murder"" was entitled ""Murder in Retrospect"" after one of the chapters in the book. When the Hercule Poirot novel ""Five Little Pigs"" was later serialized in the US in ""Collier's Weekly"" from September to November 1941, the magazine’s editing board retitled it ""Murder in Retrospect"". This was also the title used by Christie’s American publisher Dodd Mead and Company, presumably in order to capitalize on the recent US serialization. Christie's original"
"There Were None"" (from ""Ten Little Indians""), ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"" (from ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe""), ""Five Little Pigs"" (from ""This Little Piggy""), ""Crooked House"" (from ""There Was a Crooked Man""), ""A Pocket Full of Rye"" (from ""Sing a Song of Sixpence""), ""Hickory Dickory Dock"" (from ""Hickory Dickory Dock""), and ""Three Blind Mice"" (from ""Three Blind Mice""). Similarly, the novel Mrs McGinty's Dead is named after a children's game that is explained in the course of the novel. Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War (when"
"of the story and restored the original ending where both Vera and Lombard die and Wargrave commits suicide. The version of the rhyme and island name used was ""Ten Little Soldiers"" and ""Soldier Island"" as per current printings of the novel. Despite some positive reviews, the play closed on 14 January 2006. And Then There Were None (play) And Then There Were None is a 1943 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. The play, like the 1939 book on which it is based, was originally titled and performed in the UK as Ten Little Niggers. It was also performed under"
"of ""our black brothers"", which is understandable only in the context of the original name.) UK editions changed to the current definitive title in 1985. The word ""nigger"" was already racially offensive in the United States by the start of the 20th century, and therefore the book's first US edition and first serialization changed the title to ""And Then There Were None"" and removed all references to the word from the book, as did the 1945 motion picture. This is the best selling crime novel of all time, and what makes Agatha Christie the best selling novelist. It is Christie's"
"Ten Little Indians Ten Little Indians is an American children's counting out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13512. The word Indian usually refers to Native Americans. In 1868 songwriter Septimus Winner adapted it as a song, then called ""Ten Little Injuns"", for a minstrel show. The modern lyrics for the children's rhyme are: The song sometimes begins with a repeated verse, ""John Brown met a little Indian"" before entering the well-known verses. Songwriter Septimus Winner created an elaborated version of the children's song, called ""Ten Little Injuns"", in 1868 for a minstrel show. It is"
"The book was first serialised in the US in ""Collier's Weekly"" in nine parts from 3 August (vol. 106, no 5) to 28 September 1940 (vol. 106, no. 13) under the title ""The Patriotic Murders"" with illustrations by Mario Cooper. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (novel) One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. A paperback edition in the US by"
"And Then There Were None And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, her best selling novel and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, after the British blackface song, which serves as a major plot point. The US edition was released in January 1940 with the title ""And Then There Were None"", which is taken from the last five words of the song. All successive American reprints"
"And Then There Were None (1945 film) 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. It was released in the United Kingdom as Ten Little Indians, in keeping with the original title of Christie's novel. The cast included Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez, Mischa Auer, C. Aubrey Smith, Judith Anderson, Richard Haydn, and Queenie Leonard as the people stranded on the island. The film won the Golden Leopard and the Best Direction Award at the 1946 Locarno International Film"
"at March 2018, was still running; in 2009 the London run exceeded 25,000 performances. In September 2015 a public vote identified ""And Then There Were None""—originally published in 1939 under the name ""Ten Little Niggers""—as the public's favourite Christie novel; the book was the writer's favourite, and the one she found most difficult to write. In September 1930 Christie married the archaeologist Max Mallowan. The pair travelled frequently on archaeological expeditions and she used the experiences as a basis for some plots, including ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1934), ""Murder in Mesopotamia"" (1936) and ""Death on the Nile"" (1937). She"
"ingenious and most surprising... is, indeed, considerably above the standard of her last few works and close to the ""Roger Ackroyd"" level."" Other critics laud the use of plot twists and surprise endings. Maurice Richardson wrote a rhapsodic review in ""The Observer"" issue of 5 November 1939 which began, ""No wonder Agatha Christie's latest has sent her publishers into a vatic trance. We will refrain, however, from any invidious comparisons with ""Roger Ackroyd"" and be content with saying that ""Ten Little Niggers"" is one of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies yet written. We will also have to refrain"
"their respect. He joins the tribe by showing his bravery and, later, gets back his dignity by marrying his owner's daughter, killing rival Indians and taking their horses. Taking the native name ""Horse"" (he was treated as a horse), he becomes a respected member of the tribe. A Man Called Horse (short story) A Man Called Horse by Dorothy M. Johnson was originally published as a short story in ""Collier's"" magazine, January 7, 1950, and was reprinted in 1968 as a short story in her book ""Indian Country"". It was later made into a ""Wagon Train"" episode in 1958 and"
"Festival. Though it was distributed by a major studio, 20th Century Fox, the copyright was allowed to lapse and the film is now in the public domain. Several different editions of varying quality have been released to home video formats. Christie's mystery has been filmed a number of times, including as ""Ten Little Indians"" (1965), ""Ten Little Indians"" (1974), ""Desyat Negrityat"" (1987) and ""Ten Little Indians"" (1989), with variations to its characters and locale. Eight people, all total strangers to each other, are invited to a small, isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr. and Mrs."
"anonymously under the gender-neutral pseudonym ""an American"". The plot centers on the interracial marriage between a white woman and a Native American man, who have a son together. The heroine later remarries, reintegrating herself and her child into Puritan society. The issue of miscegenation caused a scandal in the literary community and the book was not a critical success. During the 1860s, Child wrote pamphlets on Native American rights. The most prominent, ""An Appeal for the Indians"" (1868), called upon government officials, as well as religious leaders, to bring justice to American Indians. Her presentation sparked Peter Cooper's interest in"
"illustrated by Frank Leclercq. Peká Editorial released a board game based on the book, created by Judit Hurtado and Fernando Chavarría, and illustrated by Esperanza Peinado. And Then There Were None And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, her best selling novel and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, after the British blackface song, which serves as a major plot point. The US edition was released"
"her 1941 thriller ""N or M?"", which was about a hunt for a pair of deadly fifth columnists in wartime England. MI5 was afraid that Christie had a spy in Britain's top-secret codebreaking centre, Bletchley Park. The agency's fears were allayed when Christie told her friend, the codebreaker Dilly Knox, ""I was stuck there on my way by train from Oxford to London and took revenge by giving the name to one of my least lovable characters."" In honour of her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1956 New"
"an Indian family wearing bright Indian clothes. The story of the boy and tigers is as described in the plot section above. In 1996, noted illustrator Fred Marcellino observed that the story itself contained no racist overtones and produced a re-illustrated version, ""The Story of Little Babaji"", which changes the characters' names but otherwise leaves the text unmodified. Julius Lester, in his """", also published in 1996, recast ""Sam"" as a hero of the mythical Sam-sam-sa-mara, where all the characters were named ""Sam"". A modern printing with the original title, in 2003, substituted more racially sensitive illustrations by Christopher Bing,"
"but still keeps to the core story line. Elements from ""The Herb of Death"" were woven into the ""Agatha Christie's Marple"" adaptation of ""The Secret of Chimneys"", starring Julia McKenzie, which first aired 20 June 2010. ""The Secret of Chimneys"" originally featured Superintendent Battle as the detective; Miss Marple was not a character in the novel. The Thirteen Problems The Thirteen Problems is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in June 1932 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1933 under the title The Tuesday"
"Five Little Pigs Five Little Pigs is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in May 1942 under the title of Murder in Retrospect and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1943 although some sources state that publication occurred in November 1942. The UK first edition carries a copyright date of 1942 and retailed at eight shillings while the US edition was priced at $2.00. The book features Hercule Poirot. The novel is notable as a rigorous attempt to demonstrate Poirot's repeatedly stated contention"
"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (novel) One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. A paperback edition in the US by Dell books in 1953 changed the title again to An Overdose of Death. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while the United States edition retailed at $2.00. It is one of several of Christie's crime fiction"
"short story."" An unnamed reviewer in the ""Toronto Daily Star"" (30 June 1939) wrote, regarding the title story ""The Regatta Mystery"", that ""Agatha Christie succeeds in baffling her readers ... [B]ut far from plausible is her solution"", and went on generally to say, ""The author is handicapped by attempting to compress her plots into 27-odd pages each. Nor has she opportunity for continued suspense."" The original version of ""The Regatta Mystery"" featured Hercule Poirot. The story was later rewritten by Christie to change the detective from Poirot to Parker Pyne for book publication and all collections in both the US"
"Within, proved to be very popular, though this popularity was due to the belief that the stories of fifth column activities were based on real events. In December 1940 the Australian censors had the series banned. British reviewers of Agatha Christie's novel ""N or M?"" in 1941 used the term to describe the struggle of two British partisans of the Nazi regime working on its behalf in England during World War II. In Frank Capra's 1941 film ""Meet John Doe"", newspaper editor Henry Connell warns the politically naïve protagonist, John Doe, about a businessman's plans to promote his own political"
"Come, Tell Me How You Live Come, Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie. It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married names of ""Christie"" and ""Mallowan"" (the other being ""Star Over Bethlehem and other stories"") and was first published in the UK in November 1946 by William Collins and Sons and in the same year in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company. The UK edition retailed for ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) and the US edition at"
"change its title to ""Little Orphant Allie"" in an 1889 printing. The printing house incorrectly cast the typeset during the printing, unintentionally renaming the poem to ""Little Orphant Annie"". Riley at first contacted the printing house to have the error corrected, but decided to keep the misprint because of the poem's growing popularity. When reprinted in ""The Orphant Annie Book"" in 1908, the poem was given an additional, introductory verse (""Little Orphant Annie she knows riddles, rhymes and things! ...""). During the 1910s and 1920s, the title became the inspiration for the names of Little Orphan Annie and the Raggedy"
"Weekly"" in ten installments from 20 September (Volume 108, Number 12) to 22 November 1941 (Volume 108, Number 21) as ""Murder in Retrospect"" with illustrations by Mario Cooper. Five Little Pigs Five Little Pigs is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in May 1942 under the title of Murder in Retrospect and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1943 although some sources state that publication occurred in November 1942. The UK first edition carries a copyright date of 1942 and retailed at eight"
"Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, ""The Mousetrap"", and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon."