Danger List

When a pharmacist's assistant prescribes the wrong medicine to three patients for whom the mistake could prove fatal, the race is on track them down before they pop their pills (and consequently pop their clogs!).

A 22-minute programme filler from Hammer Studios, Danger List is poorly written, melodramatic tosh, the kind of thing I imagine cinema-goers in the 50s would have been only too happy to turn up late for. A decent cast (which includes a young Honor Blackman) struggle with the clumsy script, but fail to generate the level of excitement or intense drama that was clearly intended, despite the film wandering into controversial territory with the unexpected themes of euthanasia and suicide.

Doctor Phillip Friend tells Mervyn Johns that his wife is dying. He prescribes her some sleeping tablets for the pain. The woman in charge of the dispensary issues some poison instead of the sedative, so Friend and Honor Blackman race around the area, trying to find people who have the pills.

It's a short subject from Hammer Films. This is pretty late in the day for such program fillers, and often they were television pilots.I don't think this was one; unless it was intended as some sort of serious series about the problems of the National Health Service, it seems unlikely, and if it was, a series about the NHS killing people doesn't seem like something that even ITV would run.