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''Ten Little Indians'' (1965) is the second film version of Agatha Christie's detective novel of the same name.〔(TCM.com )〕 Although its background story is the same as the 1945 adaptation (''And Then There Were None'') with ten people invited to a remote location by a mysterious stranger, this one takes place on an isolated snowy mountain. The house used in the film was Kenure House in Rush, County Dublin, Ireland.〔Looking at Hollywood: Fabian Heads for Dublin to Make Mystery Film Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file) (Ill ) 24 Mar 1965: b5. 〕 This version is also the first adaptation of the novel to show the murders on screen. An uncredited Christopher Lee provides the pre-recorded voice of "Mr. U. N. Owen." ==Plot== Ten people travel by aerial tramway to a snowbound mansion, invited there by a Mr. U. N. Owen to spend the weekend. They discover that none of them has actually ever met Owen, including his secretary as well as a married housekeeper and cook, all hired through an agency. Framed copies of the children's nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians" are hung on the walls of each guest's bedroom. Dinner is served by the butler Grohmann on a tray adorned with ten little Indians as well. At exactly 9 p.m., as instructed, Grohmann switches on a hidden tape recording. A man identifying himself as Owen reveals that each of the 10 guests has a scandalous secret, their involvement in various innocent people's deaths. One by one, the guests begin dying off. A little Indian from the centerpiece tray goes missing with each guest's demise. Ann Clyde, the secretary, enters into a romantic relationship with engineer Hugh Lombard as they and the others begin a deadly cat-and-mouse game, ultimately deducing that Owen is not their host but, in reality, one of them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ten Little Indians (1965 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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