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.
Set in August 1944 during the V-1 Doodlebug offensive o...
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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.
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 Southeast of England. Joseph Higgins (Marriot) dies on the operating table after being injured by a flying bomb. The anaesthetist, Barney Barnes (Howard), has had a patient die in similar circumstances previously. Inspector Cockrill is asked to investigate when Sister Bates (Campbell) is killed after revealing that the death of Higgins was not an accident. Cockrill states at one point "My presence lay over the hospital like a pall - I...
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