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Green for Danger is a 1946 British thriller film, based on the 1944 detective novel of the same name by Christianna Brand. It was directed by Sidney Gilliat and stars Sally Gray , Trevor Howard , Rosamund John , Leo Genn , and Alastair Sim .
Green for Danger is a popular 1944 detective novel by British writer Christianna Brand, praised for its clever plot, interesting characters, and wartime hospital setting.It was made into a 1946 film which is regarded by film historians as one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel.
Green for Danger is Brand's most famous novel. The whodunit, set in a World War II hospital, was adapted for film by Eagle-Lion Films in 1946, starring Alastair Sim as the Inspector. She dropped the series in the late 1950s and concentrated on various other genres as well as short stories.
Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer.. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and Night Train to Munich (1940), directed by Carol Reed.
Hattie Jacques (/ dʒ eɪ k s /; born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen.She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a prolific television and radio performer.
She made her film debut in an uncredited role in Green for Danger in 1946, [9] before working in a number of minor roles in a series of Dickens adaptations. [1] From 1958 to 1974 she appeared in fourteen Carry On films, [10] where she was "usually cast as formidable hospital matrons (at least four) or man-devouring predators". [11]
But the absence of necessary pace and drive appears especially regrettable from the production team who concocted the earlier, far more gripping, Green for Danger." [ 5 ] The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "This fair-to-middling thriller by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat is all plot and no point.
Background to Danger is a 1943 World War II spy thriller film starring George Raft and featuring Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre.. Based on the 1937 novel Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler and set in politically neutral Turkey, the screenplay was credited to W. R. Burnett, although William Faulkner and Daniel Fuchs [2] also contributed.