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Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

calvinnme By gum, from the 1940's through the 1960's, when the British put together a murder mystery with a psychological edge, nobody could beat them! This little thriller starts out in WWII as a team of surgeons and nurses are quite busy repairing the bodies of people hit by Nazi planes whose targets are not military but civilian in an effort to beat down the morale of British citizens.One night a fellow named Higgins is brought in, badly injured by one of these Nazi bombs, and he dies on the operating table. He says something right before he goes under the anesthetic to one of the members of the team - I won't tell you what - and you think "Oh this is easy, THAT person did it." Then you find out another member of the team has psychological issues stemming from her mother's death in a raid while she was away from home, that there are jealousy issues over a woman between the two doctors, and yet another member of the team just likes to cause trouble.Big tip here - if you suspect that someone is guilty of murder, do not stop a social event in a room that includes all of the suspects and say "I know there has been a murder, I know who the murderer is, and I am now going alone out into the dark of night to retrieve the evidence that will convict that person!" You will wind up dead, and so does that person.Enter stage left Alistair Sim as a representative of Scotland Yard -in other words a cop - and he is every bit as unlikeable as any murderer could be. He announces that Higgins was murdered, he announces that the five surviving members of the surgical team are suspects, and he also announces that four poison pills are missing from the pharmacy. The implication is that the one of the five that is the murderer plans to kill the other four. On his way to solving the case, Sims' character seems to really enjoy making women cry hysterically and causing the doctors to come to blows with only words and insinuations. There will be several places right up to the end where you are SURE you know who is guilty and you will be wrong right up to the ironic ending. Watch and find out who did it and why. I guarantee you'll be on the edge of your seat right up to the end, which is when the confusing title of this film is explained.

wbsjlpwfxaezkh This movie has everything going for it: good cast, good cinematography, good story, but Alastair Sim (who plays the inspector) is a wildly overrated actor and really ruins this movie. The odd way in which he portrays the inspector breaks the mood of the film and is a major distraction. Perhaps not surprising: Alastair Sim was an odd character in life too (see Wikipedia), so perhaps to be expected, but it's a shame: Trevor Howard and the rest of the cast do a great job. This could have been a mystery treat with a better actor cast in Sim's role.See it if you're a fan of Brit mysteries, otherwise, don't waste your time.

JoeytheBrit The quintessential 40s British whodunit, Green for Danger satisfies even as it leaves a trail of plot holes that even Alistair Sims' rather self-satisfied Inspector Cockrill would have spotted. Perhaps it satisfies despite its flaws because it embodies all the good things about British films back then. The writers assume a level of intelligence on the part of their viewers and possession of an attention span that would seem unattainable to many of today's MTV generation. Time is taken to develop characters and establish relationships instead of telling the audience everything about a character that is necessary only for the purpose of driving the plot along.Alistair Sim, sporting a typically smug grin when he's not ducking airplanes, plays Inspector Cockrill, who is called upon to investigate the murder of a postman on the operating table at a quaint hospital full of wooden beams and flagstone floors. He doesn't appear until midway through the film – although his voice can be heard on the narration from the outset – and his dry wit peps things up immeasurably. We are presented with the usual group of suspects: Leo Genn as a vaguely slimy Lothario who wastes no time in pursuing the lovely nurse Fredericka (Sally Gray) the moment she breaks off her engagement to a young Trevor Howard; buxom Megs Jenkins, a matronly figure even then although she was still in her twenties, and a nurse who borders on the edge of hysteria nearly all the time. They were all present at an operation in which poor old Moore Marriott was pumped full of Co2, and are all, therefore, suspected of his murder.The film keeps you guessing throughout – knowing very little about the film before I watched it, I couldn't even figure out who the second victim was going to be for a while: the plot seemed to be setting up one character for the fall before turning the spotlight on someone else entirely. A couple of red herrings throw you off the trail quite nicely, and Inspector Cockrill's confidence proves to be monumentally misplaced. The twist at the end is truly sublime, and the look on Alistair Sim's face when all becomes clear is one of those cinematic moments that live long in the memory. It's all very quaint and old-fashioned now, but it still provides some solid entertainment.

writers_reign The original audience must have been reasonably satisfied with this back in 1946 if only for the cast, who were mostly well known and the equivalent of flesh-and-blood comfort food. Alistair Sim, Rosamund John,Sally Gray, Megs Jenkins, Trevor Howard, Leo Genn, Judy Campbell just for openers. Depending on your point of view and cynicism in your make up Sydney Gilliat's direction is either stylish or manipulative; for example he introduces what will turn out to be the five suspects when they are gowned and masked in the operating theatre; with only their eyes visible the camera pans from one to the other as, for no discernible reason, they lay 'meaningful' looks on each other. This is textbook stuff from the 'Meaningless Meaningful Looks' section of How To Direct A Movie. It may well be that in 1944 hospitals were designed with Operating Theatres isolated from the main building so that victim number 2 is obliged to walk through tree-studded grounds to get to it but did she have to do it on the cliché'd 'dark and stormy night' allowing Gilliat to have a ball with howling wind and ominous shadows. Why not a balmy summer's eve, after all she's still going to wind up on the menu, and was it really necessary for the killer to be gowned and masked at a time when the theatre was locked for the night. If these things don't bother you then you'll enjoy this one as much as the majority of posters, and why not, it IS enjoyable AND entertaining in its modest way and probably just the thing after six years of war.