{"id":2426,"date":"2020-02-06T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T08:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T08:28:12","slug":"melodrama-screening-wednesday-12th-of-february-5-7pm-jarman-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2020\/02\/06\/melodrama-screening-wednesday-12th-of-february-5-7pm-jarman-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama Screening and Discussion, Wednesday 12th of February, 5-7pm, Jarman 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All are very welcome to join us for our third melodrama screening of the term. We will be watching <em>Green For Danger<\/em> (1946, Sidney Gilliat, 91 mins) on Wednesday the 12th of February 5-7pm, in Jarman 6,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2020\/02\/green-for-danger-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2427\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2020\/02\/green-for-danger-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Green For Danger<\/em> is the product of the well-known British team of producer Frank Launder and director Sidney Gilliat. It was an adaptation of Christiana Brand\u2019s 1944 novel of the same name, her second to feature Inspector Cockrill<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Alastair Sim stars as Cockrill, who is called in to investigate a murder at a hospital where the suspects include both Doctors (Leo Genn and Trevor Howard) and Nurses (Sally Gray, Rosamund John, and Megs Jenkins).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">British fan magazine <em>Picture Show\u2019s<\/em> review described it as a \u2018murder mystery melodrama with a war-time emergency hospital setting\u2019 (8th March, 1947, p. 8). It also noted that it was \u2018extremely well acted and directed&#8217;, especially singling out Sim for praise \u2018as the inspector whose drole comments on his own action provide many amusing moments.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Do join us, if you can, for this entertaining British classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are very welcome to join us for our third melodrama screening of the term. We will be watching Green For Danger (1946, Sidney Gilliat, 91 mins) on Wednesday the 12th of February 5-7pm, in Jarman 6, Green For Danger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2020\/02\/06\/melodrama-screening-wednesday-12th-of-february-5-7pm-jarman-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50575],"tags":[92827,217726,217667,217696,100160,100357,217666,217665,217732,217730,217731,20536,211551,217727,217729,100154,100356,217728],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}