This One's Ending
I can't find this one's ending, and everyone says it's different from the book. Can anyone tell me what this one's ending is?
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I wasn't sure if you wanted a spoiler for the book's ending too.
**SPOILER**
In the book, Vera shoots Lombard and then hangs herself.
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Actually, the film uses the ending Christie herself used for her stage adaptation of her novel, as the novel's rather bleak ending was deemed too depressing for Britain's war-time audiences - so Christie cleverly used one of the alternate endings to the nursery rhyme, and it's this ending which has been used until recently, when a new London stage version reverted to the novel's original ending.
I suppose we'll have one more go-round with this as a movie, though probably a made-for-TV movie - I think today's audiences will be more accepting of the novel's original ending, so it would be interesting to see a film version revert to it.
Those of you who think you know everything should politely defer to those of us who do!
Agatha Christie adapted her book for the stage and, in so doing, made several changes that some purists just might abhor including changing its name.
The original story has a Gen. MacArthur rather than the Gen. MacKenzie of her play. Keeping MacArthur as the cuckolded general's name would probably have done nothing for Anglo-American relations as well as possibly being considered a slur on the honour [sic] of the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific during World War II.