Green for Danger - Criterion Collection

Green for Danger - Criterion Collection
by Sidney Gilliat

Green for Danger - Criterion Collection
List Price: $39.95
Our Price: $35.99
You Save: $3.96 (10%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $16.99 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases


(Click here)
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD Cover Information

Actor: Alastair Sim, Leo Genn, Rosamund John, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion

Movie Reviews of Green for Danger - Criterion Collection

Movie Review: Classic whodunnit with WWII backdrop
Summary: 3 Stars

I only have a very brief review for this one, as most of the details are in the mystery and the plot and most of those details are spoilers. This is a rich and whimsical British mystery, the type popular with fans of Agatha Christie, for instance. It's set during the German blitz of Great Britain during World War II, and Gilliat backdrops the rather personal mystery held within an insular community with the Pavlovian terror of the bombings and the issue of world affairs in the heart of many a character's motivations. Otherwise, the motive behind the movie is kind of a let down, but don't let that stop you from enjoying the fun behind "whodunnit". The movie really gets started when Alastair Sim arrives as the quirky, wry investigator. He's a scene-stealer in every way, surrounded as he his by the usual in characters with strong personalities too involved in their own ways to be more than just a little truthful.

--PolarisDiB

Summary of Green for Danger - Criterion Collection

In the midst of Nazi air raids a postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital. But was the death accidental? A delightful and wholly unexpected murder mystery British writer/director Sidney Gilliat's Green for Danger features Trevor Howard and Sally Gray as suspected doctors and Alastair Sim in a marvelous turn as Scotland Yard's insouciant Inspector Cockrill. A screenwriter who had worked with Hitchcock on such films as The Lady Vanishes and Jamaica Inn Gilliat slyly upends whodunit conventions with wit and style.System Requirements:Run Time: 93 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY UPC:?715515022323 Manufacturer No:?CC1682DDVD
Writer-director Sidney Gilliat isn't the household name he deserves to be, so his film Green for Danger--once an art-house perennial--qualifies as one of the major, and surely most delightful, (re)discoveries of the season. Its cunning blend of character-driven mystery, gothic dread, and inveterately English gallows humor makes for sheer movie-movie pleasure.

There's a perfect fusion of storytelling and moodmaking, plot and setting. The time is 1944, when Hitler was attacking the British populace with V-1 flying bombs. Under this ongoing siege, at an Elizabethan country manor made over as wartime hospital, someone among a half-dozen doctors and nurses is up to something sinister. Which one is anybody's guess, given the adroitly suggested crosscurrents of loathing and desire, suspicion and jealousy animating the company. After a mysterious death on the operating table, followed by a second death that's unmistakably murder, Scotland Yard enters the picture in the perversely antic form of that long drink of wormwood, the definitive Scrooge, Alastair Sim. (Actually, Sim's sepulchral voice deliciously narrates the film from the beginning.)

Gilliat, with his partner Frank Launder, had written Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (Hitch signed on after their exemplary screenplay was done) and its de facto sequel, Carol Reed's Night Train to Munich. The same talent for drollery without sacrificing tension is abundantly apparent in Green for Danger. As added inducements, the cast includes Trevor Howard and Leo Genn; the artfully shadowy cinematography is the work of Wilkie Cooper. --Richard T. Jameson

Documentary DVD Video

DVD Video
Movies most talked about in 40 Great Films from the UK on DVD
Shaun of the Dead ImageShaun of the Dead
PEGG,SIMON; Release date: 2004-12-21; DVD
Best price: $4.76
Price in other shops: $12.98
Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition) ImageChariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2005-02-01; DVD
Best price: $10.49
Price in other shops: $26.99
Secrets and Lies ImageSecrets and Lies
Release date: 2005-02-01; DVD
Best price: $9.98
A Fish Called Wanda (2-Disc Collector's Edition) ImageA Fish Called Wanda (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2006-11-21; DVD
Best price: $12.24
Price in other shops: $19.98
Don't Look Now ImageDon't Look Now
Release date: 2002-09-03; DVD
Best price: $7.92
Price in other shops: $14.98
O Lucky Man! (Two-Disc Special Edition) ImageO Lucky Man! (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Release date: 2007-10-23; DVD
Best price: $12.78
Price in other shops: $19.98
If... (Criterion Collection) ImageIf... (Criterion Collection)
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2007-06-19; DVD
Best price: $27.22
Price in other shops: $39.95
Gregory's Girl ImageGregory's Girl
Release date: 2001-11-06; DVD
Best price: $3.04
Price in other shops: $14.98
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition) ImageMonty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
Sony; Release date: 2001-10-23; DVD
Best price: $8.87
Price in other shops: $19.94
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection ImageThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection
Release date: 2002-10-22; DVD
Best price: $27.22
Price in other shops: $39.95
Similar DVD Movies
Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection) ImageBicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2007-02-13; DVD
Best price: $27.22
Price in other shops: $39.95
The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection ImageThe Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection
DVD
Best price: $44.55
Brute Force (Criterion Collection) ImageBrute Force (Criterion Collection)
LANCASTER/CRONYN; Release date: 2007-04-17; DVD
Best price: $26.99
Price in other shops: $39.95
The Fallen Idol - Criterion Collection ImageThe Fallen Idol - Criterion Collection
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2006-11-07; DVD
Best price: $19.89
Price in other shops: $29.95
Monsters And Madmen (The Haunted Strangler / Corridors of Blood / The Atomic Submarine / First Man into Space) - Criterion Collection ImageMonsters And Madmen (The Haunted Strangler / Corridors of Blood / The Atomic Submarine / First Man into Space) - Criterion Collection
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2007-01-23; DVD
Best price: $49.25
Price in other shops: $79.95
Army of Shadows - Criterion Collection ImageArmy of Shadows - Criterion Collection
Release date: 2007-05-15; DVD
Best price: $27.21
Price in other shops: $39.95
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs: Criterion Collection ImageWhen a Woman Ascends the Stairs: Criterion Collection
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2007-02-20; DVD
Best price: $27.17
Price in other shops: $39.95
Naked City - Criterion Collection ImageNaked City - Criterion Collection
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2007-03-20; DVD
Best price: $27.21
Price in other shops: $39.95
Ace in the Hole - Criterion Collection ImageAce in the Hole - Criterion Collection
Release date: 2007-07-17; DVD
Best price: $24.94
Price in other shops: $39.95
49th Parallel - Criterion Collection Image49th Parallel - Criterion Collection
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2007-02-20; DVD
Best price: $27.21
Price in other shops: $39.95
Compare prices and read customer reviews for more than one million DVD titles.
Oscar 2005 Winners