The Green Cockatoo

1937 PG-13 1h 5m

5.9 / 10 13

RATING

5.9/10

YOUR RATING

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

Stars

John Mills Rène Ray Charles Oliver

Crime Drama

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User Reviews 1

Geronimo1967 20 Jun 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 s...