The Green Cockatoo
(1937)
Overview
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
Director
William Cameron Menzies
Writers
Graham Greene, Arthur Wimperis, Ted Berkman
Top Billed
John Mills
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CinemaSerf
⭐ 6/10June 20, 2022
This has some good ingredients to make a jolly, if not exactly, menacing murder story - but it's all just way too fluffy and talky. The doey-eyed Rene Ray is "Eileen" who arrives into London very late one night. At the station, she encounters "Dave" (Robert Newton) who offers to show her an hotel where she might pass the night. What she doesn't know, is that her good Samaritan has fallen foul of some crooks and a station fracas ensues and he is m… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
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