And Then There Were None Vs. Ten Little Indians

“And Then There Were None” Vs. “Ten Little Indians” The movie Ten Little Indians is based on the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. However, there is a great range of differences between the two. In fact, very few things from the book were kept in the movie. From the names of characters to the end of the murder mystery story, many things were changed. In both the novel and the movie, ten guests are invited to a secluded house by a mysterious Mr. U. N. Owen. Between the book and the movie, however, the names, ages, and backstories of certain characters are changed. In the book, Vera Claythorne is a governess who lets a boy drown, but in the movie she is changed to Ann Clyde, who kills her sister’s fiance, or covers for her sister who killed her fiance. The book character Philip Lombard allows twenty natives to die, while his alternate movie version Hugh Lombard isn’t actually Hugh Lombard at all. He is Charles Morley. The book character John Wargrave was changed to Arthur Cannon in the movie. In the book, Emily Brent refuses to care for a pregnant girl, …show more content…
In And Then There Were None, everybody on the island was killed. In the movie, however, Hugh Lombard/Charles Morley faked his death, and Arthur Cannon, believing that Anne Clyde was his final victim, revealed himself as the true murderer, and drank poison to seal his own fate. As he did, Morley came from the shadows to reveal that he had lived. Cannon, after realizing that his plan had been foiled, died from the poison he drank. Clyde and Lombard, assumedly, escaped the snow covered mountain. The movie Ten Little Indians has many deviations from the novel it was based on, And Then There Were None. From character names to the resolution of the suspenseful murder mystery, many things were altered, some in small ways and others drastically. However, the story remains to be one of the most famous murder mysteries of all