- Green for Danger (film)
Infobox Film | name = Green for Danger
caption ="Green for Danger" film poster
director =Sidney Gilliat
producer =Frank Launder
Sidney Gilliat
writer =Christianna Brand (novel)
Sidney Gilliat
Claud Gurney
starring =Sally Gray Trevor Howard Alastair Sim
music =William Alwyn
cinematography =Wilkie Cooper
editing =Thelma Myers
distributor = General Film Distributors Ltd.
released = 1946 (UK release)
runtime = 91 min.
country = UK
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:20895
imdb_id = 0038577"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, starringAlastair Sim andTrevor Howard , withSally Gray andRosamund John , was directed bySidney Gilliat .The film was shot at Pinewood Studios in England.
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.
Cast
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Sally Gray as Nurse Frederica 'Freddi' 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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