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René Clair

Born under the name of René Chomette in 1898, René Clair René Clair started life as a journalist and then turned to the cinema in 1920. At first an actor and assistant director, he started making films with Paris qui dort and Entr’acte (1924), a pearl of the surrealist cinema.

Commercial success and critical acclaim came with the brilliant farce comedy, An Italian Straw Hat (1927) followed by his famous early musical talkies, Le Million (1931) and A nous la liberté (1932). He continued his career in Hollywood during the war and came back to France to make the films of his mature years, Le Silence est d’or (1947) et Les Grandes manœuvres (1955). René Clair was elected to the Académie Française in 1960 and died in 1981. —Octuor de France 

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ZINCOVIX8754.

30Aug11

simply outstanding

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Christopher M. Jones

19Dec10

This movie strips all of the doom and foreboding of the book for cheap romance and hammy acting. A corny, sanitized interpretation of a truly fantastic novel.

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    Orestes_Athens

    9Sep12

    If you're looking for an adaptation close to the novel and the original ending then watch the Soviet adaptation of 1987

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    Orestes_Athens

    9Sep12

    Stanislav Govorukhin - Desyat negrityat AKA Ten Little Indians (1987)

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Conquest of Gaul

21Oct10

A work of imagination, fiction, character study, mystery, murder and thrilling excitement. A four star murder mystery and a great Agatha Christie adaptation.

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And Then There Were None

By Daniel A. DiCenso on August 9, 2011

René Clair’s And Then There Were None is literally a ship-of-fools set-up and was the prototype for many mystery movies to follow, in which a band of strangers find themselves trapped in a creepy house…  read review

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