Green for Danger - Criterion Collection
starring: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Alastair Sim, Leo Genn
directed by: Sidney Gilliat
directed by: Sidney Gilliat
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515022323
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 19167
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1947
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In the midst of Nazi air raids a postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital. But was the death accidental? A delightful and wholly unexpected murder mystery British writer/director Sidney Gilliat's Green for Danger features Trevor Howard and Sally Gray as suspected doctors and Alastair Sim in a marvelous turn as Scotland Yard's insouciant Inspector Cockrill. A screenwriter who had worked with Hitchcock on such films as The Lady Vanishes and Jamaica Inn Gilliat slyly upends whodunit conventions with wit and style.System Requirements:Run Time: 93 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 715515022323 Manufacturer No: CC1682DDVD
Amazon.com:
Writer-director Sidney Gilliat isn't the household name he deserves to be, so his film Green for Danger--once an art-house perennial--qualifies as one of the major, and surely most delightful, (re)discoveries of the season. Its cunning blend of character-driven mystery, gothic dread, and inveterately English gallows humor makes for sheer movie-movie pleasure.
There's a perfect fusion of storytelling and moodmaking, plot and setting. The time is 1944, when Hitler was attacking the British populace with V-1 flying bombs. Under this ongoing siege, at an Elizabethan country manor made over as wartime hospital, someone among a half-dozen doctors and nurses is up to something sinister. Which one is anybody's guess, given the adroitly suggested crosscurrents of loathing and desire, suspicion and jealousy animating the company. After a mysterious death on the operating table, followed by a second death that's unmistakably murder, Scotland Yard enters the picture in the perversely antic form of that long drink of wormwood, the definitive Scrooge, Alastair Sim. (Actually, Sim's sepulchral voice deliciously narrates the film from the beginning.)
Gilliat, with his partner Frank Launder, had written Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (Hitch signed on after their exemplary screenplay was done) and its de facto sequel, Carol Reed's Night Train to Munich. The same talent for drollery without sacrificing tension is abundantly apparent in Green for Danger. As added inducements, the cast includes Trevor Howard and Leo Genn; the artfully shadowy cinematography is the work of Wilkie Cooper. --Richard T. Jameson
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- Green for Great!Top British cast - Trevor Howard, Leo Genn, the beautiful Sally Grey and the outstanding Alistair Simm. ... Read More
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