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The Green Scarf
The Green Scarf
	Original British quad poster
Directed by	George More O'Ferrall
Written by	Gordon Wellesley
Based on	The Brute by Guy des Cars
Produced by	Albert Fennell; Bertram Ostrer
Starring	Michael Redgrave; Leo Genn; Ann Todd;
Cinematography	Jack Hildyard
Edited by	Sidney Stone
Music by	Brian Easdale
Production; company	B & A Productions
Distributed by	British Lion Films
Release date	25 August 1954 (London);
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Green Scarf is a 1954 British mystery film directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Richard O'Sullivan and Michael Medwin.^[1]^[2] The film's plot concerns a man who is accused of a seemingly motiveless murder.^[3] The film was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art director Wilfred Shingleton. It was written by Gordon Wellesley based on the 1951 Guy des Cars novel The Brute.^[4]

Cast

Michael Redgrave as Maitre Deliot
Ann Todd as Solange Vauthier
Leo Genn as Rodelec
Kieron Moore as Jacques
Richard O'Sullivan as child Jacques
Jane Lamb as Child Solange
Michael Medwin as Teral
Jane Griffiths as Danielle
Ella Milne as Louise
Jane Henderson as Mme. Vauthier
George Merritt as Advocate General
Peter Burton as purser
Tristan Rawson as prison governor
Henry Caine as ship'scaptain
Phil Brown as John Bell
Anthony Nicholls as Goirin
Walter Horsbrugh as interpreter
Evelyn Roberts as President of the Court
Neil Wilson as Inspector
Michael Golden as warder
Launce Maraschal as Sen. Bell
Terence Alexander as wireless operator
Frank Singuineau as clerk at telgram desk
Wilfrid Brambell as court clerk

Reception

Critical

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The melodramatic plot might well have given scope for an interesting character study of Jacques Vauthier; but the director, George More O'Ferrall, makes little use of filmic effects to suggest the extraordinary loneliness of a man unable to hear, see or speak, confronted with a charge of murder. As played by Kieron Moore, Vauthier is a pathetic rather than a sympathetic character, and he never really comes to life: were there some attempt to show the world as Vauthier sees it rather than to show Vauthier through the eyes of the other characters, the task of making a convincing character of a blind deaf-mute might be easier. Michael Redgrave, as the ageing lawyer, seems a little uncertain as to the proper interpretation of the part, and some of his lines are lost on their way through a large ragged beard. The production is on the whole adequate, although the final whodunit denouement appears out of key with the subject."^[5]

Leslie Halliwell said: "Plodding courtroom drama with familiar faces in unconvincingly French guise."^[6]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Competent-plus cast and interesting plot, although drama doesn't touch many emotional chords."^[7]

Box office

In The New York Times, its film critic Bosley Crowther concluded: "The Green Scarf is a mottled and unconvincing thing."^[8] According to Kinematograph Weekly the film was a "money maker" at the British box office in 1954.^[9]

References

^ "The Green Scarf". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
^ Orren (28 January 1955). "The Green Scarf (1954)". IMDb.
^ "The Green Scarf (1954)". BFI. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
^ Ronald Bergan. "The Green Scarf". RadioTimes.
^ "The Green Scarf". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 21 (240): 128. 1 January 1954 – via ProQuest.
^ Halliwell, Leslie (1989). Halliwell's Film Guide (7th ed.). London: Paladin. p. 430. ISBN 0586088946.
^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 317. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.
^ "Movie Reviews". The New York Times. 11 November 2021.
^ Billings, Josh (16 December 1954). "Other monkey makers". Kinematograph Weekly. p. 9.