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Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:58:30 +0000

[...] of the Lt. Pascal series – take a germ of a idea from Agatha Christie and runs with it: namely, TEN LITTLE INDIANS‘ conceit of a group of people all having a common connection for which someone is trying to [...]

By: FRIDAY AFTERNOON REGASM >> 5.26.06 » Bookgasm

FRIDAY AFTERNOON REGASM >> 5.26.06 » Bookgasm — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:18:58 +0000

[...] WEDNESDAY >> 5.24.06 BOOKS 2 FILM deconstructed Harry Alan Towers’ 1965 translation of Agatha Christie’s murderlicious AND THEN THERE WERE NONE to the big screen as TEN LITTLE INDIANS. That Christie chick wrote some pretty influential stuff, and though Mr. Lott says the 1945 film adaptation is the best one, I think Whoopi Goldberg could give it a run for its money with SISTER ACT 3: AND THEN THERE WERE NUNS. [...]

By: Rod Lott

Rod Lott — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:09:54 +0000

I haven’t seen that one, but I want to. That may be the one he did for Cannon Films – or maybe that’s a later one; Towers milked the rights for all they were worth.

By: Brian M. Thomsen

Brian M. Thomsen — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:02:38 +0000

Also worth noting is the Harry Alan Towers productions from the late 70s early 80s which starred Oliver Reed and Richard Attenborough (with Orson Welles as the mysterious voice on the tape). I believe that like the O’Brien-Eaton this was updated but stayed a bot closer to the Christie plot as written.