It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Ten people come together at a mountain mansion, guests of a mysterious U. N. Owen who keeps them waiting, and waiting..."I find a singular lapse of manners a house party and the host the last to arrive," huffs Judge Cannon (Wilfred Hyde-White).For Judge Cannon and the other nine, a lapse of manners is just an appetizer for what follows: Accusation, isolation, and eventually, a menu full of murder."Ten Little Indians" is a delightful jaunt of swinging-'60s ambiance that plays a bit with the conventions of a classic Agatha Christie mystery while still delivering the goods. A Mancini-ish jazz score and a cast that features Fabian, Bond girls Shirley Eaton and Daliah Lavi, and slumming luminaries like Hyde-White and Dennis Price keep fun in the foreground.I love Elsa Grohmann (Marianne Hoppe)'s one-word review of Lavi's actress character, Ilona Bergen; and how Fabian's singer character Mike Raven gets on everyone's nerves singing about their "strictly nurseryville" situation. Butler Grohmann (Mario Adorf) even asks, after the guests begin dropping like flies: "How many do you think there will be at dinner tonight?"At the same time, the film works hard building up the classic Christie structure of constant mortal danger, and in places even refining it a little. For example, you wonder how the actress and the general know each other, and if the "dab hand" of detective Blore (Sterling Holloway) has something to do with a sudden power cut. Why does Hugh Lombard (Hugh O'Brian) carry luggage with the initials "C. M."? Why would Ann Clyde (Eaton) take a job as secretary to a man she never met? Yes, it's done with yuks, especially watched a second time when you see the red herrings clearly and the crafty culprit right in front of you, but amid all the frosting there's a wickedly fine cake, dark and deadly and cold as hell.Director George Pollock and producer-writer Harry Alan Towers (writing here as Peter Welbeck) previously developed several successful if slightly irreverent film adaptations of Christie's Miss Marple stories. Here they work that same comic touch into the darker material of "Ten Little Indians." They even pause the action for what they call a "Whodunit break."Of course this shouldn't work, especially with a cast that seems to strain at the self-conscious celebrity of a "Fantasy Island" episode a decade or so later, yet the pieces come together. There's an especially well-delivered twist at the end, as scott-palmer2 points out in his August 2009 review unique to this particular adaptation, which is ironically set up by that most clichéd film convention, a sudden romance involving our sexy leads.One sequence near the end, involving a staircase and a revolver, is played too cute and feels forced. Also, there are some minor contrivances, like when two characters have a fight for no other reason than to give one of them an excuse to make an abrupt exit from the story. You may not like the characters, but empathy is not the object here, no more than it was with Christie's novel. Here, suspense is alleviated by comedy, and while no substitute for reading the disturbing book, what you get is high-class entertainment with a game cast and a crafty script.

Yes, let's consider the 2 coy changes to the original play and 1945 (original version)title. Trouble with this little bedtime tale is that it's good for one viewing once the guilty character is revealed and then you watch & compare the different casts & variances in plot. Clearly the many curious( and awful) remakes can't touch the excellent Rene Clair version nor its cast. I once attempted a review for IMDb and it was rejected because I mentioned the original UK release title which I can produce from a newspaper of the day. It seems that "Indians" is still OK today but never the original word! Further (appro pro the original) "And Then There Were None" is still not entirely accurate where the original has 3 remaining characters (I won't say who) at the end. It is a great,fun mystery and Louis Hayward would never be allowed to sleep with June Duprez in the day.It also seems the stage (and film) resolution had to be changed since the real book ending wouldn't have worked. The con has been repeated several times since. One of the best (& unlikeliest) was that used in Fritz Lang's "Woman In The Window". I have just got through watching the 1965 UK version that DOES contain the minute break,

In spite of a rather significant departure from the original ending of the book (which I was still able to enjoy in my childhood with the original title, still immune to the so-called political correctness unfortunately so prevalent nowadays!), this turns out to be the best of the film adaptations done so far. The Austrian setting works perfectly, to say nothing of the exquisite (grey) cat. All cats are grey in the dark, as the saying goes... Almost 50 years after its original release, the movie has a fortunate new lease on life, thanks to its availability in DVD format. The actors preserve a certain innocence of the mid-60-s, which gives the movie an added note of freshness and originality.

Agatha Christie's novel "And Then There Were None" has been made into a film several times, most often under the name "Ten Little Indians." Based on the nursery rhyme, people meet their deaths in various ways according to the poem: choking, bee sting, etc. In the original Christie story, the setting is an island (in this version it's an isolated ski resort) to which a group of people are invited by a U.N. Owen. Their unseen host accuses each one of them of a crime; in each case, the crime was due to the unforeseen result of an action, making the wrong decision, that sort of thing. And one by one each guest is killed. Before that happens, the guests realize that U.N. Owen is one of them.Good story, but this film has some problems, not the least of which is the grooveadelic '60s music that makes it seem like a swinging Dean Martin comedy instead of a mystery. Another problem is Fabian, and after you see this film, you'll realize why he never could go the Frankie and Annette route. His character is wisely dispatched right away.The rest of the cast consists of some excellent British character actors: Wilfred Hyde-White, Dennis Price, and Stanley Holloway. Playing a film star is the beautiful, exotic Israeli actress Daliah Lavi, and her clothes are a high point of the film; the gorgeous Shirley Eaton is in the cast as Ann Clyde, a secretary who becomes the love interest of the very handsome lead, Hugh O'Brian (from my home town, I might add).Black and white, "Ten Little Indians" is atmospheric but moves somewhat slowly. In a way it's hard to judge, as I knew the story coming in. Newcomers to the plot should enjoy it.