I always loved the Hollywood/play ending of “And Then There Were None,” though.

mysharona1987:

The judge was basically deciding that 10 random people were 100% guilty of murder based on nothing but unsubstantiated rumors, anecdotes and vague witness stories.  

Of course, he would have made mistakes and accused two entirely innocent people of crimes they didn’t, in fact, commit. .

The movie /play endings work out so well because they point out to the judge; “Well,you thought you were a God and knew everything about justice, but you don’t really at all, do you?”

It’s pure hubris.

That’s why Vera and Lombard laugh so heartily in the 1945 film before they head off together . 

The Judge was wrong. They were innocent. The judge represented a society that called them murderers without even bothering or caring enough to find out the real facts.