René Clair -Convite Para a Morte (And Then There Were None) - 1945 (Agatha Christie)

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Enviado por ArtFilmsAnimation em 20/02/2011

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And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaption of Agatha Christie's best-selling mystery novel And Then There Were None directed by René Clair.

The film changes certain characters' names and adheres to the ending of the play rather than that of the novel. Though its subject matter is dark, the screenplay injects considerable humor into the proceedings, lightening the tone of Christie's grim book. It was directed by René Clair from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols. Its cast featured 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 could arguably be seen as a precursor to the modern slasher film, though it certainly isn't gory, and the deaths are not played up for their horror, as they are in slasher films today.

The film won best film at the Locarno International Film Festival.

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A primeira e considerada pela crítica como a melhor adaptação cinematográfica de um clássico de Agatha Christie, Ten Little Niggers.

Com muita sensibilidade, e humor negro, Clair caracteriza as pessoas reunidas numa ilha deserta, que esperam em vão pelo seu anfitrião, e que são sucessivamente mortos por ele.

O argumento de Dudley Nichols está impregnado de momentos notáveis, e o elenco consegue criar diálogos espontâneos, apesar do espectador nunca se esquecer que se trata de um thriller. É de modo fluente e quase sem grandes esforços que a tensão atinge o seu ponto alto.

O operador de câmara Lucien Andriot oferece-nos uma façanha visual. O romance sofreu três novas versões: uma vez com o mesmo título (1974), e duas vezes como Ten Little Indians (1966 e 1989).

And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaption of Agatha Christie's best-selling mystery novel And Then There Were None directed by René Clair.

The film changes certain characters' names and adheres to the ending of the play rather than that of the novel. Though its subject matter is dark, the screenplay injects considerable humor into the proceedings, lightening the tone of Christie's grim book. It was directed by René Clair from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols. Its cast featured 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 could arguably be seen as a precursor to the modern slasher film, though it certainly isn't gory, and the deaths are not played up for their horror, as they are in slasher films today.

The film won best film at the Locarno International Film Festival.

Though it was produced 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  (Wikipedia)

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