# Green for Danger

Green for Danger is a 1946 film about a murder at an English country hospital during the Blitz. When a local postman inexplicably dies while undergoing a routine operation, suspicion falls on the six doctors and nurses present. After one of the six is stabbed to death while investigating the incident, a police inspector arrives to take up the case.
    Directed by Sidney Gilliat. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Claud Gurney, based on the novel by Christianna Brand.

## Inspector Cockrill

* I suppose I should be glad my suspects haven't been reduced any further.
* [dictating his report In view of my failure — correction, comparative failure — I feel that I have no alternative but to offer you, sir, my resignation, in the sincere hope that you will not accept it. Full stop.

## Dialogue

    Dr. White: I do hope everything can be arranged discreetly.
    Cockrill: Umm, shouldn't think so for a moment.
    Dr. White: Why not? Press? Do they have to be seen?
    Cockrill: Can't keep 'em out.
    Dr. White: Oh, dear.
    Cockrill: I don't mind; they always give me a good write-up.
    Dr. Barney Barnes: I gave nitrous oxide at first, to get him under.
    Inspector Cockrill: Oh yes, stuff the dentist gives you, hmmm — commonly known as "laughing gas".
    Dr. Barnes: Used to be — actually the impurities cause the laughs.
    Inspector Cockrill: Oh, just the same as in our music halls.
    Mr. Eden: Are you trying to make me lose my temper?
    Inspector Cockrill: Oh, that was only a secondary object.
    Dr. Barnes: So, without bothering to inquire, you scare the life out of her, like any flat-footed cooper off the beat.
    Inspector Cockrill: The police force has not a monopoly of fallen arches, Dr. Barnes - ask any chiropodist.
    Sister Bates: You know it's the truth. If he wanted to marry her, do you think she'd hesitate if you weren't here?
    Dr. Barnes: Well, I am here.
    Sister Bates: You won't be much longer, not if he knows about it.
    Sister Bates: You killed a girl, didn't you? A few years ago in Herren's Park.
    Dr. Barnes: That's not true and I've had just about enough of it.
    Sister Bates: Now there's been another death, and White's had you on the carpet.
    Dr. Barnes: What's this got to do with Eden?
    Sister Bates: You're in his way, that's all.
    Dr. Barnes: You're imagining things.
    Sister Bates: No I'm not. I'm seeing the truth. You get like that. You get to see people like you never did before, all the rotten things you shut your eyes to once. And it hurts, and that's a comfort. You're in his way, don't you see?
    Dr. Barnes: What are you getting at?
    Sister Bates: You'll find out. I'm going to join them.
    Sister Bates: I saw him kissing her in the ward last night.
    Dr. Barnes: [stunned] What?
    Sister Bates: That hurt, didn't it? Now you know how I feel. I saw him. I saw the way he looked at her. He's in love! As far as he can be.
    Dr. Barnes: If I were you I'd have a nice cup of cocoa and go to bed!
    Nurse Linley: Oughtn't we to go back?
    Mr. Eden: Why? It's a lovely night.
    Nurse Linley: We're still suspects.
    Mr. Eden: That's a very good thought to escape from.
    Mr. Eden: You seen Barney?
    Nurse Linley: No. I don't know what to do about him.
    Mr. Eden: Isn't it time you made up your mind?
    Nurse Linley: He's behaving so ridiculously.
    Mr. Eden: I don't blame him: he's in love with you. Don't blame him for that either.

## Cast

* Sally Gray — Nurse Frederica "Freddi" Linley
* Trevor Howard — Dr. Barney Barnes
* Rosamund John — Nurse Esther Sanson
* Alastair Sim — Inspector Cockrill
* Leo Genn — Mr. Eden
* Judy Campbell — Sister Marion Bates
* Megs Jenkins — Nurse Woods
* Moore Marriott — Joseph Higgins
* Henry Edwards — Mr. Purdy
* Ronald Adam — Dr. White
* George Woodbridge — Detective Sergeant Hendricks
* Wendy Thompson — Sister Carter
* John Rae — the porter
* Frank Ling — rescue worker

## External links

* Green for Danger (film) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Green for Danger at Allmovie