Janet GreenFilmography

Born:: July 4, 1914
Occupation:: Screenwriter, Play Author
Biography:: Throughout the '40s, '50s and '60s, British screenwriter and playwright Janet Green penned many movie scripts, alone and in collaboration with producer/screenwriter John McCormick, her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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Thin Air: A Spenser Mystery

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Marcia Gay Harden, Yancy Butler, Luis Guzman, Jon Seda

Synopsis: Robert Mantegna stars as tough Boston private eye Spencer in this made-for-cable adaptation of the Robert B. Parker novel Thin Air. It all begins when Lila St. Claire (Yancy Butler, the new bride of police detective Frank Belson (David Ferry), is kidnapped by Latino ganglord Luis DeLeon (Jon Read More

2000
Passions

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: When wealthy businessman Richard Kennerly (Richard Crenna) dies, he leaves behind a great many unresolved issues. More specifically, he leaves behind a wife named Catherine (Joanne Woodward) a mistress named Nina (Lindsay Wagner)--and the children from both liasons. Upon learning of Nina's Read More

1984
Seven Women

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock

Synopsis: John Ford's final film is set in China in 1935, where a group of American women, led by Agatha Andrews (Margaret Leighton), work as missionaries. One of the women, Florrie (Betty Field), is pregnant and accompanied by her husband, Charles (Eddie Albert), while the others are single and on their Read More

1966
Condemned to Life

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, Megs Jenkins

Synopsis: Religion and medical ethics clash in this provocative drama that tells the story of a man prosecuted by the system because he refused to grant his dying daughter badly needed blood transfusions because he had faith that God would miraculously heal her. Unfortunately, the girl dies and now, in Read More

1962
Victim

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Peter McEnery

Synopsis: In its time, Victim was considered as a daring a film as had ever been made in England. Taken at face value, Janet Green and John McCormick's screenplay is nothing new: Dirk Bogarde plays a lawyer who agrees to defend an old friend (John McEnery) on a theft charge, only to be enmeshed in a Read More

1962
Midnight Lace

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim of a mysterious stalker, who she hears but can never see. She is threatened by the eerie, high-pitched voice as she walks in the thick London fog. She then begins receiving Read More

1960
Sapphire

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles

Synopsis: Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig portray two Scotland Yard detectives who are investigating the murder of a young black woman who had been passing for white. As timely a topic today as when made in an England rampant with racial prejudice in the 1950s, it stays just this side of an in-depth Read More

1959
The Gypsy and the Gentleman

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Patrick McGoohan, June Laverick, Lyndon Brook

Synopsis: Greek actress Melina Mercouri made her English-language film debut in The Gypsy and the Gentleman. Mercouri plays tempestuous gypsy girl Belle, while the "gentleman" is Sir Paul Deverill (Keith Michell). Escaping an arranged marriage, Sir Paul weds the bewitching Belle,who intends to take him for Read More

1958
Affair in Havana

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: John Cassavetes, Raymond Burr, Sara Shane, Lilia Lazo, Sergio Pena

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama the trouble begins when the healthy wife of a crippled plantation owner prepares to leave with her handsome lover. Just before she does, her ailing husband tells her that he will only live a few months more, and if she remains with him she will inherit $20 million. Read More

1957
The Third Key

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Michael Brooke, Sam Kydd

Synopsis: Jack Hawkins is starred as a gruff, intensely dedicated Scotland Yard superintendent. Working as much by instinct as through scientific methods, Hawkins and rookie sergeant John Stratton tackle the case of a string of unsolved safecrackings, committed by the elusive Richard Leech. This Dragnet Read More

1956
Eyewitness

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Nigel Stock

Synopsis: In this thriller a woman witnesses a robbery, runs away from the scene and is rundown by a bus. The two thieves, realizing that she could get them arrested, sneak into the hospital where they plan to kill her. Their repeated attempts all end in failure. At the end, one of the thieves, feeling Read More

1956
Cast a Dark Shadow

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Mona Washbourne, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison, Robert Flemyng

Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his first wife (Mona Washbourne), hoping to claim her inheritance. Surprise! The inheritance is a myth. Thus Bogarde sets his sights on barkeeper Margaret Lockwood, whom he knows to Read More

1955
Tears for Simon

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Farrar, David Knight, Julia Arnall, Anthony Oliver

Synopsis: An 18-month-old baby disappears in London. The parents, US embassy worker David Knight and his wife Julia Arnall, are panic-stricken. Detective David Farrar tries to locate the child, but clues are scarce. At the last possible moment, Farrar rescues the infant from a grueling fate and collars the Read More

1955
The Good Beginning

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Johnny Fraser is a middle-class Briton jealous of the conspicuous consumption of his next door neighbors (Peter Reynolds, Lana Morris). To show them up, Fraser buys his wife (Eileen Moore) a valuable mink jacket. He goes deeply into debt, then goes deeper still as he borrows to pay for the loan Read More

1953
The Clouded Yellow

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More, Maxwell Reed

Synopsis: The Clouded Yellow stars Trevor Howard as David Sommers, a former member of the British Secret Service. After the war, Sommers takes a low-profile job cataloguing butterfly specimens. While thus employed, he make the acquaintance of Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons), a curious young lady who seems to Read More

1950
The Hangman Waits

Crew: Set Designer

Synopsis: In this realistic crime drama, a sadistic psychopathic killer, who works as an organist in a theater, is found guilty of murdering and hacking up a theater usher. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1947