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, 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.

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

*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