October 31, 1945 –
René Clair’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery And Then There Were None was released in the US on this date.
In recent years it has come to light that much of Agatha Christie’s plot appears to have been inspired by a little-known 1930 play by Owen Davis titled The Ninth Guest, which utilized the same framework of people being brought together by an unknown host who proceeds to kill them one-by-one. Columbia Pictures’ atmospheric 1934 movie version, The Ninth Guest, has never been released on home video, but is now in the public domain.
The Haus of Dcaligari 