Behind Green Lights
About Behind Green Lights
A private investigator who blackmails his targets is found dead in a car. The leading suspect is Janet Bradley, daughter of a candidate for mayor, with the election weeks away. Shady men pressure the medical officer to switch the corpse for another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few straight officers on the case, has to untangle the switch.
Cast & crew
More about Behind Green Lights
Otto Brower directed Charles G. Booth's script. Twentieth Century-Fox produced and released it. Joseph MacDonald photographed it. Emil Newman wrote the music. Carole Landis, William Gargan, Mary Anderson, and John Ireland star.
Themes
Background
A 1946 Fox crime film about a blackmailer's death landing on a candidate's daughter.
Making
Brower shot the crime story inside a police station during a city election.
Look
Joseph MacDonald photographed the station and the switched body.
Music
Emil Newman wrote the score.
Preservation
The film survives on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The dead man is a blackmailer. Janet Bradley is the daughter of a mayoral candidate.
- The plot turn is a swapped corpse at the morgue.
- Sam Carson is the lieutenant who keeps after the switch.
Scenes
- The investigator is found dead in the car.
- The medical officer is pushed to substitute another corpse.
Also available
- Internet Archive (behind_green_lights)
- Wikimedia Commons (Behind Green Lights (1946).ogv)
