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  Review by Ziglet_mir ★★★★★ 7

  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. Barney Barnes: Used to be -- actually the impurities cause the laughs.

  Inspector Cockrill: Oh, just the same as in our music halls.

  A wild, suffocating suspense yarn with a full dose of mystery set upon the backdrop of the final year of WW2. A team of doctors and nurses finds their local courier upon their operating table and the operation goes south quick. Is everything what it seems? Has murder been committed? 

  The story shrewdly maneuvers between the stark black and white photography and the sharp, witty dialogue that…

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  Review by Lara Pop ★★½ 3

  Green for Danger was not as engaging as I thought it would be based on the positive reviews, even though the story was passable, the pacing alright and the exchanges witty and crisp. The terrible sound mixing really bothered me though as there were times when the music almost completely blotted out the dialogue. It did no good to my ever-increasing indifference and made the movie a forgettable experience.

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  Review by Steve G 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 ★★★½ 4

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  An Inspector Falls.

  Eight years before Alastair Sim would turn in a remarkable performance in An Inspector Calls, he appears here in a role that would nicely prepare him for what many regard as one of the best performances of his career.

  The thing is that he is at least as good here as he was there - it just so happens that Green For Danger as a name doesn't have quite the reputation that An Inspector Calls has. It's a sort of wartime whodunnit as he torments a batch of suspects in the murder of a postman that was conducted whilst he was supposed to be about to undergo an operation.

  It's enjoyable…

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  Review by PUNQ ★★★★½ 5

  Up until the end Green for Danger (1946) was one of the most well-structured murder mysteries of '46. Classic British crime at its most refined. And then there was the ending.... absolutely brilliant! That was classic Alastair Sim!

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  Review by Karelle ★★★★ 14

  L'affaire, là, c'est que j'ai vraiment hâte à Knives Out. Vraiment, vraiment hâte. Ça, doublé du fait que je suis occupée et fatiguée comme ça se peut pas, ça m'a amenée à laisser le cinéma un peu de côté et à faire des affaires comme regarder High Seas, une série télé sur Netflix qui, je pensais, était un whodunit (mais ça ne l'est pas, et c'est pas ben bon non plus, mais je suis pognée pour regarder la deuxième saison, car y'a une séance et des fantômes, maudite marde), et à grappiller ici et là pour trouver des whodunit à regarder (comme toujours), parce que c'est tellement reposant pour mon esprit (et mon âme) comme films.

  Comme j'en lis beaucoup…

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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★½

  Green for Danger is a tad dull at first, with too many characters with too few interesting features. There's a few horror moments that up the ante though, with evocative shadows, violent murder, and tense surgery. Alastair Sim turns up midway through Green for Danger and saves the film, playing a witty detective who is both hilarious and likeable. The plot is all a bit silly but with Sim around the film is fine fun.

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  Review by Zoë 🐝 ★★★½ 1

  I definitely was not expecting to develop a crush on Trevor Howard when I watched Brief Encounter, but I absolutely did, and I was just as moony-eyed watching him be a handsome doctor in Green for Danger. Okay, he's also a suspect for murder, so be it!

  This is just such a fast, breezy, darkly funny detective story. It's not Hitchcockian, and it's not quite Agatha Christie, which I was very pleased by because Green for Danger instead felt like a British murder mystery all its own. The characters are engaging (I liked Nurse Woods the best), and there are plenty of funny digs at Scotland Yard throughout (the inspector is essentially incompetent). Lots of twists, reveals, hospital interpersonal drama, and high stakes throughout. I also thought the wartime setting was a wise choice, complementing the utterly British dark humor with a very specific time and place in British history. Fun stuff!

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  Review by Jim Morrow ★★★½ 2

  I watched this a few days ago, but forgot to log it. Filled with red herrings and plot holes, but still great fun for the whodunit crowd. Alastair Sim is the smug and conceited Inspector Cockrill doesn't appear until we've gotten to know all the suspects and a couple of murders have taken place. There are randy doctors, heartbroken doctors, suspicious nurses, hysterical nurses, matronly nurses, an ill-fated postman, and all the while, doodle-bugs are flying overhead and exploding nearby. "Doodlebug" was the odd term for Nazi V1 rockets that were launched on southern Great Britain between June and October of 1944. People are ducking them and nervously listening for them all through the film. Sim's Cockrill does the initial…

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  Review by Chris 🦑 ★★★★

  Honestly an insane movie if only because I all i knew going in was that it was set in a war hospital so I was expecting the usual British ww2 film but then I got a wild murder mystery

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  Review by mandijo ★★★★★ 4

  My oldest son graduated from high school on Friday, these past few days have been chaotic, emotional and full of people... so it was really nice and cathartic to just curl up on my couch and watch a favorite film.

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  Review by Owen ★★★★

  Very enjoyable wartime murder mystery, Alistair Sim's character has his very own mixture of dark whimsy and chills while the rest of the cast play it very seriously.

  Definitely one that repays close attention and manages to create a singular atmosphere of a country hospital during doodlebug barrage where a single (or double) murder investigation seems at once quite small yet still important.

  I'm not a huge fan of british movies of the period but Sim is excellent, Howard brings an untrustworthy energy and the other performers lack of recognition 70 years on means you can approach the mystery on its own terms. The direction is excellent from Sidney Gilliat who is probably best known these days for writing The Lady Vanishes.

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  Review by feels_for_reels ★★★★

  Part melodrama, part murder mystery - and so much fun - one of those films where someone from a small group is the murderer, and they need to find out who it is fast, before they pick off everyone else, one by one. 

  The film takes place at a rural hospital during WWII, and there is something surreal about the setting even outside of the constant shelling that goes on in the background. The doctors and nurses all live on the grounds (one doctor always walking around in his robe like Hugh Hefner), and there is a bit of lurking in rooms and gardens after dark, a couple of scenes that are actually creepy. But even more interesting than the…