“Rene Clair ALL the way…” I LOVED it! I totally recognized that is was a Rene Clair movie, because it has his mark all over it. The movie was very funny, as well as full of suspense. It doubles as a comedy. The cast is full of stars like James Cagney’s dad in Yankee Doodle Dandee (forgot his name) as the alchoholic doctor, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, C.Aubrey Smith, June Duprez, Roland Young, Mischa Auer as the crazy prince, Judith Anderson, and Richard Haydn. They were all really good in it, and I think this is the best version of all the movies of Agatha Christie’s great novel/play. Mischa Auer was really very funny as the crazy Russian Prince. I wish he hadn’t been the first to go, because it’d been fun to see what he would do throughout the movie. So all of them played their parts well, especially the Yankee Doodle Dandee guy, Richard Haydn, and Louis Hayward. He really is handsome, so I am adding him to my list of hot classic actors. Louis Hayward’s like Robert Taylor in the 1930s/James Bond. Maybe m…

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Great mystery
This is one of those old films that is just a pleasure to watch. The acting and the atmosphere is wonderful and you are transformed to another place and time. For anyone who loves a good mystery this is a one of the best….more info

great movie
The movie is great but the cover is deceiving, it shows it in color but the movie is in black & white….more info

Abysmal DVD transfer lets down this entertaining film
Terrible, scrappy transfer to DVD format of a good film! I got the first warnings of things to come in the opening credits.. a scatchy & dusty picture…but that was nothing to the intermittent lip-synch problems! There is little more distracting than having the characters’ voices reach your ears either before or after their lips move… And this DVD version is VERY distracting in that respect, with whole chunks of the movie being affected. Such a pity – and such a waste of money!…more info

Improves With Each Viewing
Here’s another movie that I never felt was anything but fair, but I kept giving it more chances and every time I did, my rating went up. It seems to get better and better with multiple viewings, especially now that Image has given us a better DVD transfer.

If you didn’t know any of these actors, the movie would be “fair” at best. You can bet if the story were re-done today, it would be faster moving. As it stands, its okay but a film in which 10 people are invited to an island and are systematically murdered one by one, should make for a tense thriller. Here, it’s more of a study in paranoia, but that’s interesting to view, too.

I especially enjoy watching Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald banter back-and-forth and I was glad to see the most annoying character (can’t say) be done with first!

The ending to this mystery was well-done, too, and not something you’re likely to solve. So, if you like the old classic mysteries, this should be appealing. It features an interesting cast of young and old actors, male and female.

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