Green for Danger - Criterion Collection

Green for Danger comes from the talented writing and directing hand of Sidney Gilliat. Gilliat is normally known for his productive partnership with Frank Launder, the team responsible for State Secret (1950), The Belles of St. Trinians (1954), and screenplay writers of Hitchcock’s excellent The Lady Vanishes. For Green with Danger, however, he partners with Claud Gurney, turning in a clever and witty whodunit tale based on a novel by Christianna Brand.

This is a murder mystery with wit and style of the highest order. After surviving an explosion from one of Germany’s V1 bombs (a frequent attack weapon in the latter part of WWII), a local postman is taken to the provincial hospital for care. After he dies on the operating table before the simple and routine operation can even begin, the doctors and nurses quickly become suspects, and, after a second murder, a smug, quirky and profusely sharp Scotland Yard Inspector arrives to solve the crime.

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