Green for Danger (1946)

British film set at war time country hospital is an often drawing room-style, melodramatic mystery. First half hour is honestly pretty boaring, but once Alastair Sim’s Inspector Cockrill arrives on the scene he immediately begins chewing. All in all an intriguing take on the formidable archetype British detective of story telling myth, with Cockrill a character who is simultaneously capable, cocky, lazy, drool, non-committal, and at times maybe even a bit cowardly. One only wishes the detective had a more intriguing mystery to solve, and that the supporting cast had characters who were as interesting as their well realized performances. Thumbs: Sideways.