It becomes clear that their unseen killer is following the nursery rhyme. General Mandrake conducts a search of the chalet's catacombs, splitting everyone into pairs, ultimately leading to his demise, stabbed after being led to a planted distraction (a cat). In the morning, the tram cable is cut, killing the cook, Mrs. Mike Raven chokes after taking a drink and dies, and a small Indian figurine from the centerpiece tray is broken away. 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.

At exactly 9 p.m., as instructed, Grohmann switches on a hidden tape recording. Dinner is served by the butler Grohmann on a tray adorned with ten little Indian figurines, as well. 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.įramed copies of the children's nursery rhyme ' Ten Little Indians' are hung on the walls of each guest's bedroom. Ten people travel by aerial tramway to a snowbound mansion, invited there by a Mr. Actor Christopher Lee (uncredited) provided the pre-recorded gramophone voice of 'Mr. This version is also the first adaptation of the novel to show the murders on screen. Unger, with co-producer Harry Alan Towers also credited as co-writer under his pen name Peter Welbeck.Īlthough 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. It is the second film version of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel. Ten Little Indians is a 1965 British crime mystery film directed by George Pollock.

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