Director: René Clair
Script: Dudley Nicholas, Agatha Christie
Camera: Lucien Andriot
Art direction:: Edward Boyle
Editing:: Harvey Manger
Music:: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
With: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez, Mischa Auer, Sir Aubrey Smith, Judith Anderson, Queenie Leonard, Harry Thurston, Richard Haydn
Rene Clair weaves the quintessential spider web with brilliant camera work including unusual but effective angles, snappy dialogue, and magnificent performances by ten impeccably cast artists. The viewer is drawn into the anxiety, claustrophobia, terror, and resignation felt one-by-one by each of the twelve weekend "guests" of Mr. Owen. Any mystery, suspense or thriller fan will be incomplete without seeing this work of absolute genius.
This may be the best mystery ever put to film
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