question: 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?
answer: 1945
context: Title: Tommy Atkins (director)
  Passage: Tommy Atkins was an American director of the silent and early sound film eras.  Born on July 18, 1887 in Springfield, Massachusetts, he would make his entrance into the film industry as the assistant director to Ralph Ince on the 1920 silent film, "Out of the Snows".  It would be another eight years before he would make another film, again as assistant director, this time for FBO Pictures, on another silent film, "Crooks Can't Win".  He'd work as the assistant director on another sixteen films between 1928 and 1934, the most notable of which would be 1933's "Morning Glory", directed by Lowell Sherman and starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr..  In 1934 he would be given the chance to helm his first picture, "The Silver Streak", which was one of the top money-makers for RKO Pictures that year.  He would only direct two more films, the second of which, "Hi, Gaucho! ", he would also write the story for.
  Title: Sam Nelson
  Passage: 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.
  Title: And Then There Were None (1974 film)
  Passage: And Then There Were None (a.k.a. Ten Little Indians) is a 1974 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling 1939 mystery novel of the same name.  The film was directed by Peter Collinson and produced by Harry Alan Towers.
  Title: Michael Hertzberg
  Passage: Michael Hertzberg is an American assistant director, writer, and film producer best known for his work with director Mel Brooks.  Hertzberg was extremely influential on Brooks, having started working for Brooks as an assistant director on Brook's first film "The Producers", and going on to produce several of Brooks' early films including box office hits, "Blazing Saddles" and "Silent Movie".  "Blazing Saddles" was awarded the #6 slot on the American Film Institute's list of Top 100 comedy films of all time.  Hertzberg started working as an assistant director in commercials, television and feature films.  He was the first assistant director to Frank Perry on the hit cult film, "The Swimmer", starring Burt Lancaster.
  Title: René Clair
  Passage: René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981) born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer.  He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy.  He went on to make some of the most innovative early sound films in France, before going abroad to work in the UK and USA for more than a decade.  Returning to France after World War II, he continued to make films that were characterised by their elegance and wit, often presenting a nostalgic view of French life in earlier years.  He was elected to the Académie française in 1960.  Clair's best known films include "The Italian Straw Hat" (1928), "Under the Roofs of Paris" (1930), "Le Million" (1931), "À nous la liberté" (1931), "I Married a Witch" (1942), and "And Then There Were None" (1945).
  Title: And Then There Were None (1945 film)
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Fred Fleck
  Passage: Fred Fleck (June 6, 1892 – November 9, 1961), also known as Fred A. Fleck, Frederick Fleck, or Freddie Fleck, was an American assistant director and production manager.  Born in New York City on June 4, 1892, he broke into the film business as an assistant director on the 1928 silent film, "The Riding Renegade", directed by Wallace Fox.  During his 30-year career, he would work on some notable films, with some notable directors.  Some of those films include: the epic "Hell's Angels" (1930), directed by Howard Hughes; King Vidor's "Bird of Paradise" (1932); the Ginger Rogers' 1941 vehicle, Tom, Dick and Harry, directed by Garson Kanin; 1942's "The Magnificent Ambersons", directed by Orson Welles, and starring Joseph Cotten and Anne Baxter; "Born to be Bad" (1950), starring Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan; and Josef von Sternberg's "Jet Pilot" (1957), starring John Wayne.  Fleck was also one of the aerial cameramen on George Archainbaud's classic 1932 film, "The Lost Squadron".
  Title: John E. Burch
  Passage: John E. Burch (August 17, 1896 – July 28, 1969), more commonly referred to as simply John Burch, was an American film assistant director, producer, and production manager during the latter part of the silent era right through the 1950s.
  Title: James Anderson (filmmaker)
  Passage: James Anderson (November 6, 1902 – November 26, 1960), also known as James A. Anderson or James H. Anderson, was an American assistant director during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.  He is sometimes confused with James K. Anderson, the actor, because their careers overlapped, and obviously the similarity in their names.  Born on November 6, 1902, in his twenty-five year career, Anderson worked on almost 75 pictures.  He began his career in film as an actor with a featured role in the silent era, in 1925's "The Freshman", starring Harold Lloyd.  After appearing in several silent films, with the advent of sound he moved behind the camera, where he was a perennial assistant director.  He would spend almost his entire career with RKO Radio Pictures, from their inception in 1929 through 1949.
  Title: The Body in the Library (film)
  Passage: The Body in the Library is a 1984 television film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1942 detective novel "The Body in the Library", which was co-produced by the BBC and the A&E Network.  The film uses an adapted screenplay by T. R. Bowen and was directed by Silvio Narizzano.  Starring Joan Hickson in the title role, it was the first film presented in the British television series "Miss Marple" and premiered in three parts from 26 to 28 December 1984 on BBC One.  In the United States the film was first broadcast on 4 January 1986 as a part of PBS's "Mystery! ".  In his review in "The New York Times", critic John J. O'Connor wrote: "Miss Christie would no doubt approve of Joan Hickson, the veteran British character actress who plays Miss Marple... This BBC/Arts & Entertainment co-production offers an especially good example of Agatha Christie in adaptation.  The characters are nicely realized and the suspense holds.  Miss Hickson is lovely, neither as awesome as Miss Rutherford nor as overly cute as Helen Hayes.  And the supporting cast is admirable, particularly Gwen Watford as Dolly and David Horovitch as Inspector Slack.  As someone notes about the case, 'you'll have to admit it has all the bizarre elements of a cheap thriller.'  Once hooked, you won't be able to turn it off."
citations: Sam Nelson And Then There Were None (1945 film)