Ten Little Indians 1989 Based on the Agatha Christie novel And There Were None, screenplay by Jackson Hunsicker and Gerry O'Hara, directed by Alan Birkinshaw, produced by Harry Allan Towers. A Cannon Films release that only became available on DVD and Blu-ray last year, it had been released on VHS and Laserdisc in the past.
This time the setting is the African jungle and everyone is thinking they are on a safari. The IMDb trivia page says producer Harry Alan Tower changed the setting in the original script, the usual island setting, to Africa because it was cheaper to shoot there. Other than a few minor changes to the characters, Brenda's character is now a lesbian, the story is pretty much the same. As you'd expect they are picked off one at a time and the little Indian statues have their heads broken off by the mysterious Mr Owen.
The cast includes Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur Thorp, Brenda Vaccaro, Herbert Lom, Warren Berlinger, Yehuda Efroni, Paul L Smith, Moira Lister and Neil McCarthy. Herbert played the Doctor in the 1974 film adaptation of the story.
I thought it was barely average and it's the least interesting of the versions of the story that I've seen. The Wikipedia lists 25 different TV and film productions, there's even an adult version, but I've only seen 7 of them. I thought this version might have been made for TV, it almost seems like that level of production, typical of Cannon Films. Lucky for me there are some better versions.
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