Danger List

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Danger List
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Directed by Leslie Arliss
Written byJ.D. Scott
Produced by Anthony Hinds
Executive producer
Michael Carreras
Starring Philip Friend
Honor Blackman
Cinematography Arthur Grant
Edited byA.E. Cox
Music by Edwin Astley
Release date
  • 1957 (1957)
Running time
22 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Danger List (also known as Dangerous Drugs) is a 1957 British second feature ('B') [1] short film directed by Leslie Arliss for Hammer Film Productions. [2] It stars Philip Friend, Honor Blackman and Mervyn Johns. It was photographed by Arthur Grant, and has a score by Edwin Astley. The running time is 22 minutes.

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Plot

A nurse in the dispensary of an English hospital is suffering with a migraine, and accidentally dispenses the wrong medicines to three patients. The police and doctors have little time to locate the patients before the consequences are fatal.

All three patients are located. However, the husband of the third uses the pills to kill his wife, who is already suffering from a terminal illness, and takes one himself to join her in death.

Cast

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This peculiar short story is an uneasy mixture of suspense, comedy and tragedy (the final mercy-killing and suicide). Since the whole thing is rather pointless, with nothing to say on the subject of mercy-killing, it seems an unnecessary reflection on hospital authorities and discouragement to their patients to dwell on the possibility of such a serious error." [3]

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References

  1. Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 148. ISBN   978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. "Danger List". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  3. "Danger List" . The Monthly Film Bulletin . 24 (276): 142. 1 January 1957 via ProQuest.