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
Claud Gurney
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.
Country Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
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 film version, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard, with Sally Gray and Rosamund John, was directed by Sidney Gilliat.

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 asked to investigate 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.

The title, Green for Danger, is a reference to the colour coding used on anaesthetist's gas bottles.

[edit] Cast


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