The ending

Superb adaptation of the book - light years ahead of any other.
But they missed a trick with the ending by showing the killer's identity too soon.

After Vera hung herself, we should have had the camera pan back, slowly, to the staircase...and, just as the audience were thinking what they were supposed to think, that it was Vera all the time, we see a shadow inch its way towards the doorway......

Other than that, I thought the movie was faultless. Even the "rape" scene felt appropriate, in that this was the self-obsessed side of those characters rising to the fore and gave an insight into how their over-reaching sense of self allowed them to commit their crimes.

If I was to be nitpicky, I would have removed the music which played over U.N.Owen's narration of the crimes, had Blore and Lombard a little less similar in looks and attitude and given Armstrong a few more lines (remember how stricken with nerves he is in the book?).

But you can't have everything - and this adaptation makes the 1945, 1966 and 1974 ones virtually unwatchable now.

9.7/10