The hacks writing it didn’t waste time introducing us to the characters. He should have gotten a much better movie, considering he had Agatha’s story, a mostly all-star cast, and the great idea of filming on location in South Africa. He was the producer, not the director or the writer, but producers have a lot of power. You would think that by adaptation number three, Towers would know the story backwards and forwards. He filmed it again in 1974, this time setting it at a grand hotel isolated in hundreds of miles of Iranian desert. He made the film (retitled Ten Little Indians) in 1965 and set it in an Austrian schloss in the dead of winter. Among other things, as he played fast and loose with contracts and the truth like all good producers do, he acquired the film rights to And Then There Were None. Movie producer Harry Alan Towers (1920-2009) lived a colorful and dramatic life. Read more of Teresa’s Agatha Christie movie reviews at Peschel Press.Īlso, follow Teresa’s discussion of these movies on her podcast. Beautiful, exotic landscapes, dangerous animals, an intriguing setting, a mostly all-star cast, yet the movie flowed like treacle in January. You’d think by this time he’d get the story right. This is producer Harry Alan Tower’s third try. Teresa Reviews “Ten Little Indians” (1989) and discovers the third time is not the charm for this African-set thriller

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