Review of Green for Danger (1946) by Mike M — 30 Jul 2008

The granddaddy of all subsequent medical thrillers ("Coma", "Anatomy" and "Pathology", as well as "Quincy" and "Diagnosis: Murder")... Just as the bombs reduce whole sections of the set to rubble, so the film plays as a deconstruction of the classic country house murder-mystery, with Sim larking about and knowing far too much about those he's investigating (including, he thinks, the killer's identity a whole half-hour before the end), only to make a complete Horlicks of tying matters up.

All good fun, and I suspect even present-day NHS employees will recognise something in the hospital apparatchnik who insists receptacles be labelled "salvage" instead of "waste", in the interests of better morale.