Green for Danger (film)

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Green for Danger
Green for Danger film poster
Directed by	Sidney Gilliat
Produced by	Frank Launder Sidney Gilliat
Written by	Christianna Brand (novel) Sidney Gilliat Claude Guerney
Starring	Sally Gray Trevor Howard Alastair Sim
Music by	William Alwyn
Cinematography	Wilkie Cooper
Editing by	Thelma Myers
Distributed by	General Film Distributors Ltd.
Release date(s)	1946 (UK release)
Running time	91 min.
Language	English
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Green for Danger is a 1946 thriller film, based on the popular 1944 detective novel by Christianna Brand.

Leo Genn, Trevor Howard and Alastair Sim in Green for Danger

The book Green for Danger was praised for its clever plot, interesting characters, and wartime hospital setting. The 1946 film version, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard, with Sally Gray and Rosamund John, was directed by Sidney Gilliat and is generally regarded by film historians as one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel.

The film was shot at Pinewood Studios in England.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A murder takes place in a rural British hospital. Inspector Cockrill is tasked to determine whodunit when the head nurse is killed after revealing that the death of a patient under anesthesia was not an accident. Cockrill states at one point, "My presence lay over the hospital like a pall - I found it all tremendously enjoyable". After another murder attempt leaves a nurse dangerously ill he re-stages the operation in order to unmask the murderer.