Green for Danger

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Audience Member Crisply photographed by Oswald Morris, this low budget post-war whodunnit benefits from the wartime paranoia - careless talk costs lives - and constant threat from bombings as its protagonists - a small team of medics - deal with a series of murders on the operating table, sexual betrayal, and - most terrifying of all - the amused attentions of Alastair Sim's determined Inspector Cockerill. The sound mix occasionally drowns out the dialogue, but it's entertaining stuff, and foreshadows every Agatha Christie adaptation you've ever seen. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Frances H I just love Alistair Sim! What a wonderful actor he was! This is a very nifty murder mystery, but a crucial clue is kept from the audience, which only the inspector knows, which in my view is rather a cheat on the audience. In really first rate mysteries all of the clues should be in plain sight, so that the audience (or reader, as the case may be) has a chance to solve it! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/21 Full Review Audience Member Apart from a dud ending this is an excellent whodunnit. Trevor Howard gives his usual intense performance and as well as the murder mystery there's plenty of drama arising from the love triangle between Howard, Leo Genn and the sumptuous Sally Gray. Alastair Sim as Inspector Cockrill steals the show, though, somehow managing to be extremely funny without in any way undercutting the drama. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member A well done British mystery set in southeast England during the V1 blitz of World War 2. Well acted and well plotted. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/25/18 Full Review Audience Member Decent, slightly strange mystery movie. Inspector Cockrill, played by Alastair Sim, is clearly the highlight. It's too bad they didn't make his character into a series. His sense of humor and non omnipotence is a refreshing take on the mystery sleuth. Also interesting in terms of being an early postwar film, you can see the influence of it, much like many US postwar movies. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member This is an entertaining British whodunit with a very witty script ("That's what you call laughing gas isn't it?" "Oh yes but it's the impurities that cause the laughs." "Oh just like our Music Halls.") Two murders and an attempted third in a British hospital during WWII, five suspects (including Trevor Howard) and one very eccentric Scotland Yard detective (played deliciously by Alistair Sim) make a recipe for a great night in. Get it cheap with two other films in Beyond Entertainment's Classic Matinee Triple Bill of lost gems from the Rank Organisation's back catalogue. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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