History Film / GreenForDanger

* PlayingWithSyringes: While [[spoiler:Sanson]] is confessing, [[spoiler:Mr. Eden]] quietly loads a syringe. [[spoiler:Sanson then flees from the room and Eden runs after her, but Cockrill stops him from injecting her. Sanson then collapses and dies; she had poisoned herself with the missing pills, and [[StabTheScorpion Eden was trying to give her the antidote]].]]

* TheCasanova: Surgeon Mr. Eden. He has a reputation as a womaniser; has had a relationship with Sister Bates in the past (and she is still pining for him); is currently putting the moves on Freddi Linley, despite her being engaged to Dr. Barnes; and Nurse Woods pointedly warns him that things are different in the hospital and won't be like he were in his private practice before the war, with female patients coming to him with "fluttering eyelashes and bosoms".
* ChekhovsClassroom: When introduced, Dr. White is giving a lecture to the doctors about the new efficiency measures he has introduced since taking over as hospital administrator, including repainting the bins marked 'WASTE' to say 'SALVAGE'. This is an EstablishingCharacterMoment, but later becomes significant because [[spoiler:explains where the murderer got the paint they used to disguise the carbon dioxide cylinder as an oxygen cylinder]].

* DeadlyDoctor: The murderer has to be one of the medical personnel present in the operating theatre when Higggins died. When the killer confronts Sister Bates in the emppty operating theatre, they dressed in a full set of surgical scrubs including cap, mask and gloves: completely obscuring their identity and even their sex. The killer is ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler:Nurse Esther Sanson]].

At Heron's Park Hospital, the operating theatre staff face not only the horrors of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII but also their own personal dramas. Amidst the chaos, tensions rise as jealousies, rivalries, and unrequited loves simmer within the hospital. When a courageous nurse bravely announces that a recent death in the operating theater was, in fact, a murder, her life takes a sinister turn. Enter Inspector Cockrill, an unconventional detective from Scotland Yard, who arrives at the hospital to investigate the suspicious death. As he delves deeper into the case, he encounters a complex network of bitter cross-currents among the hospital staff, each with their own motives and secrets.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: After being exposed as the murderer, [[spoiler:Esther Sanson]] secretly swallows the for poison pills stolen when Bates was killed, and expires before Inspector Cockrill can affect the arrest.

* TheCassanova: Surgeon Mr. Eden. He has a reputation as a womaniser; has had a relationship with Sister Bates in the past (and she is still pining for him); is currently putting the moves on Freddi Linley, despite her being engaged to Dr. Barmes; and Nurse Woods pointedly warns him that things are different in the hospital and won't be like he were in his private practice before the war, with female patients coming to him with "fluttering eyelashes and bosoms".

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: After being exposed as the murderer, [[spoiler:Esther Sanson]] secretly swallows the for poison pills stolen when Bates was killed, and expires before Inspector Cockrill can arrest her.

* TokyoRose: After the doodlebug blows up the warden station, the radio survives the explosion and is heard broadcasting'''Germany Calling'' where the female announcer is telling the British about the invincibility of Germany's V-1 rockets.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: After Inspector Cockrill warns the suspects not to trust any of the others as one of hem is the murderer, the highly strung Esther Sanson breaks out into hysterical laughter and keeps laughing until Nurse Woods slaps her across the face.

* TokyoRose: After the doodlebug blows up the warden station, the radio survives the explosion and is heard broadcasting'''Germany Calling'' where the female announcer is telling the British about the invincibility of Germany's V-1 rockets.

* DuringTheWar: A murder mystery set in a British rural hospital during the last years of UsefulNotes/WorldWarWarII.

At Heron's Park Hospital, the operating theatre staff face not only the horrors of war but also their own personal dramas. Amidst the chaos, tensions rise as jealousies, rivalries, and unrequited loves simmer within the hospital. When a courageous nurse bravely announces that a recent death in the operating theater was, in fact, a murder, her life takes a sinister turn. Enter Inspector Cockrill, an unconventional detective from Scotland Yard, who arrives at the hospital to investigate the suspicious death. As he delves deeper into the case, he encounters a complex network of bitter cross-currents among the hospital staff, each with their own motives and secrets.

* TokyoRose: After the doodlebug blows up the warden station, the radio survives the explosion and is heard broadcasting "Germany Calling" where the female announcer is telling the British about the invincibility of Germany's V-1 rockets.

'''''Green for Danger''''' is a 1946 British thriller film, based on the 1944 detective novel of the same name by Christianna Brand. It was directed by Creator/SidneyGilliat and stars Creator/AlastairSim, Creator/TrevorHoward, Sally Gray and Rosamund John. The film was shot at Creator/PinewoodStudios in England. The title is a reference to the colour-coding used on the gas canisters used by anaesthetists.