Green for Danger (film)
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| 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.
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
Set in August 1944 during the V-1 Doodlebug offensive on London, a murder takes place in Heron's Park Emergency Hospital, a rural British hospital somewhere in the South-east of England. 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.
Throughout the film, there is a recurring gag regarding buzz bombs. Cockrill hears what sounds like one, takes cover hurriedly, but then the "bomb" is revealed to be something innocuous.
[edit] Cast
- Sally Gray as Nurse Frederica 'Freddie' Linley
- Trevor Howard as Dr. Barney Barnes
- Rosamund John as Nurse Esther Sanson
- Alastair Sim as Inspector Cockrill
- Leo Genn as Mr. Eden
- Judy Campbell as Sister Marion Bates
- Megs Jenkins as Nurse Woods
- Moore Marriott as Joseph Higgins (the Postman)
- Henry Edwards as Mr. Purdy
- George Woodbridge as Detective Sergeant Hendricks
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