Review: Green for Danger
Set at a small country hospital during WWII, a local postman dies on the operating table under mysterious circumstances. Doctor Trevor Howard seems to be the prime suspect, having had another patient die under similar circumstances. Meanwhile, smug womanising doctor Leo Genn gets caught kissing nurse Sally Gray by another jealous nurse who claims the postman’s death was actually murder. Then the accusing nurse herself winds up dead. Enter Scotland Yard Inspector Alastair Sim, set to get to the bottom of things, albeit like a bull in a china shop. Megs Jenkins plays one of the other nurses. Although the guilty party tries just a tad too much to be noticed, this 1946 mystery-thriller from director Sidney Gilliat (screenwriter of Hitchcock’s classic “The Lady Vanishes” ) and co-writer Claud Gurney (his second and final screen credit, having died the same year at just 49 years of age) is an enjoyable experience. I actually rather preferred the early moments that merely focussed o...