And Then There Were None

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945) **1/2 I don't believe that Agatha Christie was capable of writing anything dull about anything that ever happened in the South West. René Clair had a similar problem: everything he aimed a camera at turned interesting. Here you have him working one of Ms Christie's most famous plots and…it's good. I don't know if his style distracts from the intricacies of the author's work, but it's something out that way. The acting's all very good-I particularly enjoyed June Duprez and Walter Huston-and I'm just a little lost to explain why I wasn't more impressed. The pacing was somewhat forced by the plot, but there was nothing wrong with it. It all looked cool. If it wasn't quite believable, life is full of things that aren't. Clair just works so much better for me with things even less believable, I guess…it just never comes together the way that the novel does…that's not quite it either; I mean it's true but there's more to the less of it than that.

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