

7.760 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestCut down to half their original number, the guests of Soldier Island are in danger of losing their minds to fear and anxiety.
Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably named Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die -- one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: '... and then there were none.
Acting
Charles Dance devours every scene like fine china.
Production
The 1939 art deco island prison is gorgeously suffocating.
Writing
Sarah Phelps twists Christie's ending into something darker still.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
BBC commissioned this as part of a Christie 'dark reimagining' series; Phelps would adapt four more.
The original 1945 Hollywood ending was so upbeat Christie hated it — this version restores her bleakness.
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