Sam Nelson was a director and assistant director who worked from the end of the silent era right up through the early 1960s, as an assistant director he worked on such notable films as, And Then There Were None, released in which year, a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling mystery novel of the same name, directed by René Clair?
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Sam Nelson Sam Nelson was a director and assistant director who worked from the end of the silent era right up through the early 1960s. While most of his film work was in the assistant director role, he did direct over 20 films during the 1930s and 1940s, all of which were westerns. As an assistant director he worked on such notable films as "Pennies from Heaven", "And Then There Were None", "All the King's Men", the original "", "Some Like It Hot", "A Raisin in the Sun", and "Spartacus". In addition he appeared in over a dozen films in small roles.
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And Then There Were None (1945 film) And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling mystery novel of the same name, directed by René Clair. It was released in the UK with the title Ten Little Indians, in line with the UK title of Christie's novel.
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Tom's Midnight Garden (film) Tom's Midnight Garden is a 1999 family fantasy film directed by Willard Carroll and starring Nigel Le Vaillant, Marlene Sidaway and Serena Gordon. After going to stay with his uncle a boy is disappointed that he doesn't have a garden he can play in. However, he discovers a secret garden that only appears in the middle of the night. It was based on the novel "Tom's Midnight Garden" by Philippa Pearce.
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Neither Seen Nor Recognized Ni vu, ni connu French: "Neither seen, nor known" , is a French comedy film from 1958, directed by Yves Robert, starring Louis de Funès. The film is based on the novel "L'Affaire Blaireau" ("The Badger Case") by Alphonse Allais. The film is known under the titles: "Neither Seen Nor Recognized" (international English title), "L'affaire Blaireau" (France - alternative title), and "Fisch oder Fleisch" (West Germany). The story had previously been adapted for the 1923 silent film "The Blaireau Case" and the 1932 sound film "The Blaireau Case".
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The Old Curiosity Shop (1914 film) The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Mai Deacon, Warwick Buckland and Alma Taylor. It was based on the 1840 novel "The Old Curiosity Shop" by Charles Dickens, and was the first of three film adaptations of the story by Bentley. It was made by the Hepworth Company, the leading British film studio before the First World War.
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The League of Frightened Men (1937 film) The League of Frightened Men is a 1937 mystery film based on the second Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout. Directed by Alfred E. Green, the Columbia Pictures film stars Walter Connolly as Nero Wolfe, a role played by Edward Arnold in the previous year's "Meet Nero Wolfe". The role of Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin was reprised by Lionel Stander.
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Three on a Spree Three on a Spree is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Sidney J. Furie, based on the 1902 novel "Brewster's Millions", which had been previously filmed by Edward Small in 1945.
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Mist in the Valley Mist in the Valley is a 1923 British silent crime film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, G.H. Mulcaster and James Carew. It was based on a novel by Dorin Craig.
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River's End (1930 film) River's End is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Charles Bickford and Evalyn Knapp. Bickford plays two roles, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) sergeant and the man he is after. The film is the second of three adaptations of the bestselling novel "The River's End" by James Oliver Curwood, the others being released in 1920 and 1940.
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The Woman in White (1929 film) The Woman in White is a 1929 British silent mystery film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Blanche Sweet, Haddon Mason and Cecil Humphreys. The film was made at Cricklewood Studios in London. It is based on the novel "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins.
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Three Men in a Boat (1920 film) Three Men in a Boat is a 1920 British silent comedy film directed by Challis Sanderson and starring Lionelle Howard, Manning Haynes and Johnny Butt. It is an adaptation of the novel "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome. Three friends enjoy a series of comic adventures when they go for a boating holiday on the River Thames.
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No Kidding (film) No Kidding is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas featuring Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan and Irene Handl, Noel Purcell and Julia Lockwood. The film is adapted from Verily Anderson's 1958 memoir "Beware of Children", under which title the film was released in the US. Anderson also wrote the screenplay.
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The Truants (film) The Truants is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Joan Morgan, George Bellamy and Lewis Gilbert. It is an adaptation of the 1904 novel "The Truants" by A.E.W. Mason. It was made by Britain's largest film company of the era Stoll Pictures, The film's sets were designed by art director Walter Murton.
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The Thin Line (novel) The Thin Line, later re-issued as "Murder, My Love", is a 1951 crime novel by the British-Lebanese author Edward Atiyah. It was filmed twice, first as "The Stranger Within a Woman" by Naruse Mikio, 1966, and then by Claude Chabrol, as "Just Before Nightfall", 1971.
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The Mysteries of Paris (1962 film) The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a French-Italian film from 1962, set in Paris. It was directed by André Hunebelle, written by Diego Fabbri and Pierre Foucaud, starring Jean Marais. The scenario was written on the basis of the novel "Les Mystères de Paris". It has several precursors including "The Mysteries of Paris" (1912), "The Mysteries of Paris" (1935).
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The Lone Wolf Returns (1935 film) The Lone Wolf Returns is a 1935 American crime film starring Melvyn Douglas as jewel thief Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf. Retired, the Lone Wolf is forced back into crime, but turns the tables on his enemies. It is based on the 1923 Louis Joseph Vance novel "The Lone Wolf Returns", which had previously been made into a 1926 film of the same name.
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Night at the Crossroads Night at the Crossroads (French: La Nuit du carrefour ) is a 1932 film by Jean Renoir based on the novel of the same title (known in English as "Maigret at the Crossroads") by Georges Simenon and starring Renoir's brother Pierre Renoir as Simenon's popular detective, Inspector Maigret.
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Sam Greenlee Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an African-American writer, best known for his controversial novel "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", which was first published in London by Allison & Busby in March 1969 (having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers), and went on to be chosen as "The Sunday Times" Book of the Year. The novel was subsequently made into the 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Ivan Dixon and co-produced and written by Greenlee, that is now considered a "cult classic".
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Alias Ladyfingers Alias Ladyfingers is a lost 1921 American silent comedy film based on the 1920 mystery novel "Ladyfingers" by Jackson Gregory. It was adapted for the screen by Lenore Coffee and was directed by Bayard Veiller. The film stars Bert Lytell, Ora Carew, Frank Elliot, Edythe Chapman and DeWitt Jennings. The film was produced and distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation.
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Miss Marple (TV series) Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992. All 12 original Miss Marple Christie novels were dramatised. The adaptations were written by T. R. Bowen, Julia Jones, Alan Plater, Ken Taylor and Jill Hyem, and the series was produced by George Gallaccio. In addition to its availability on VHS and DVD, the series began to be released on Blu-ray Disc in October 2014, marking its 30th anniversary.
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Solace (2015 film) Solace is a 2015 American mystery thriller film directed by Afonso Poyart and starring Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Abbie Cornish. The film's script was originally planned and developed as a sequel to the 1995 thriller film "Se7en", but the idea was eventually scrapped, and "Solace" was completed instead. The film was released on December 16, 2016, by Lionsgate Premiere. The film is about a psychic doctor, John Clancy (Anthony Hopkins), who works with an FBI special agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell).
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Sabotage (1936 film) Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, and John Loder. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent", about a woman who discovers that her husband is an agent terrorist. "Sabotage" should not be confused with Hitchcock's film "Secret Agent", also released in 1936, but based on the stories of W. Somerset Maugham