The Green Cockatoo

The Green Cockatoo

18/7/1947 1h 5m 5.8/10

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

Top Billed Cast

Rène Ray

Rène Ray

Eileen

Robert Newton

Robert Newton

Dave Connor

John Mills

John Mills

Jim Connor

Bruce Seton

Bruce Seton

Madison, tall henchman

Julian Vedey

Steve, short henchman

Charles Oliver

Charles Oliver

Terrell, gang boss

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/20/2022

6/10

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 mortally injured. Before he croaks, he gives her a message to give to his brother "Jim" (John Mills) in the eponymous nightclub. She meets the brother, but a rather unlikely series of mishaps befall the pair as they are being sought by the police and the hoodlums. Aside from some singing and dancing that one wouldn't normally attribute to John Mills, the thing is entirely procedural with little by way suspense or peril; and saving a rather curious performance from Frank Atkinson as the butler "Protheroe" would be instantly forgettable.

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