The Green Cockatoo
This movie received its earliest documented U.S. telecasts in Atlanta, Wednesday, January 11, 1950 on WSB (Channel 8), in Chicago, Sunday, January 29, 1950 on WGN (Channel 9), in Cincinnati, Sunday, February 19, 1950 on WLW-T (Channel 4), in Boston, Sunday, March 5, 1950 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 28, 1950 on KTSL (Channel 2), and in New York City, Friday, July 21, 1950 on WPIX (Channel 11).,Jim Connor: You're not drunk are you?
Dave Connor: 'Course I'm not drunk - I'm too smart for that.,Smoky Joe
Music and lyric by William Kernell,What stands out most of all from this film are the credits.The film was directed by William Cameron Menzies at Denham just after "Things To Come".It was from a Graham Greene story.It was photographed by Mutz Greenbaum(Max Greene) who was one of Herbert Wilcox's favourite DOPs and the music was by Miklos Roza,one of the numerous Hungarians brought over to work in the UK by his compatriot Alexander Korda.So not your average quota quickie.I first saw this when i hired a 16mm print in the 1960s.I saw it again yesterday.I have to say it is fairly entertaining.A young Robert Newton for once not overplaying.A young John Mills reminding us that he started out as a singing juvenile lead.His performance is a bit off key.He seems at times to be in a Warners crime film of the thirties doing his Cagney impersonation before doing his Gordon Harker impression.A really enjoyable reminder of a now moribund genre.,