Like most other film versions of Agatha Christie's 1939 murder mystery, Rene Clair's 1945 adaptation fudges the book's climax, adhering instead to the more sanitised ending of Christie's 1943 stage play, but otherwise this movie is faithful and the story of characters summoned by a mysterious stranger to a remote island where they are picked off one by one is suitably chilling, creepy, puzzling, and there is also plenty of humour like a wonderful scene of cabin fever paranoia and fear that literally has each character being watched as they in turn watch another.
★★★★☆
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