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Green for Danger is a popular 1944 book later made into a 1946 film.

The book Green for Danger was a 1944 detective novel by Christianna Brand, praised for its clever plot, interesting characters, and wartime hospital setting. The 1946 film version, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard, with Sally Gray and Rosamund John. It was directed by Sidney Gilliat and is regarded by film historians as one of the greatest screen adapations of a Golden Age mystery novel.

The film was shot a Pinewood Studios in England.

A murder takes place in a rural British hospital. Inspector Cockrill is tasked to determine whodunit when the head nurse is killed after revealing that the death of a patient under anesthesia was no accident. Cockrill states at one point, "My presence lay over the hospital like a pall - I found it all tremendously enjoyable". After another murder attempt leaves a nurse dangerously ill he re-stages the operation in order to unmask the murderer.

Cast

Sally Gray
as Nurse Frederica 'Freddie' Linley
Trevor Howard
as Dr. Barney Barnes
Rosamund John as Nurse Esther Sanson
Alastair Sim
as Inspector Cockrill

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