Deaths
I cannot get this film because all I have is a DVD player and the movie hasn't come out on DVD so can someone tell me which deaths of characters were changed and how they changed them.
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Actually, in the 1945 version, we do know how the doctor dies--Lombard and Vera find him washed up on the beach, obviously drowned. And while you're right about Blore's murder not fitting the rhyme, it's a lot more realistic than waiting for him to stand in exactly the right spot and hoping he doesn't move before the falling weight hits.
I've never liked the fourth or fifth murders in this version; they leave far too much to chance.
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Do you know how the butler dies in this version?
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No the 1974 version.
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I know but then I asked if the judge emptied the butler's canteen and broke his compass so he would automatically die and you never answered.
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On a review of a movie the person said the butler forgot to checks his canteen which is of course empty and his compass which is of corse broken, which makes me think the judge may have broken the compass and emptied the canteen.
shareOn the internet someone somehow thinks that in the 1965 version the doctor was shot and in the 1989 version he was strangled.
shareIf the doctor in the 1965 version is shot, where'd the murderer get the gun? He obviously doesn't have one, since he has to steal Lombard's earlier in the movie--and when the doctor dies, Ann has it.
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The reason he's upset about the butler's death is not because it's unbelieveable that the butler's canteen and compass were sabotaged. He's upset because, if YOU are going to go on a trek in the desert, would you REALLY not look at your sh*t before you left? You know there's a killer screwing around. And if I'm going out into the sun, I'm going out with as much water as I can carry, not one little canteen.
Plus, it seems like the butler dies from maybe 1 hour's worth of exposure. It takes three days for the body to dehydrate from lack of water and cause death. In the film, it takes merely hours.
All in all, even though I like the film because of Reed, Attenborough, and Herbert Lom, that was a poorly scripted and executed death. I'd have bought it more if he'd been out there and got shot, or stabbed, or whacked, or something by the killer.
So, with that breakdown, you can see why some of us have issues with the way the butler was killed.
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In the book, at least one of the characters brought a gun (Blore or Lombard) maybe both.
shareLombard. In the book, "Mr. Owen" instructs his agent, Isaac Morris, to suggest to Lombard to bring a revolver with him.
In the original 1945 version of the movie, Judge Cannon says that it's against the law for private citizens to carry handguns, but I don't know enough about gun laws in the UK to say whether or not it would be against the law for Blore, as a private inquiry agent, to carry one. At any rate, he doesn't bring one with him to the island/ski lodge/hotel.
So that leaves only one gun in each of the first three versions of the movie--and when the doctor dies, Vera/Ann has it and Mr. Owen has no way of getting it from her unnoticed.