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Jan 05, 2010 at 10:40 AM |
 January 16, In a rural English hospital during WWII, a postman dies on the operating table. One of the nurses states that she has proof of who the murderer is. The facetious Inspector Cockrill suspects one of the five doctors and nurses who were in the operating theater to be the assassin. But four poisonous pills have disappeared.
It’s 2010, and downtown Peoria’s nonprofit Apollo Theater is starting off the year with an overlooked treasure: the 1947 whodunit “Green for Danger” on Saturday, January 16.
During World War II, a postman is apparently assassinated amid Nazi bombing raids on London, and hospital personnel overwhelmed with their jobs – and their love lives – turn to an eccentric Scotland Yard detective to solve the murder.
Alastair Sim (“A Christmas Carol”) and Trevor Howard (“Bridge on the River Kwai”) lead a British cast in the Sidney Gilliat gem, filled with the stiff-upper-lip resolve of wartime England – along with a bit of whimsy to keep it all in perspective.
Gilliat was a respected director, screenwriter and producer who also worked on “Jamaica Inn,” “Waterloo Road” and “A Yank at Oxford.”
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