Sir Frank Wallace, a Cabinet Minister, astonishes his old friend Henry Redmond by refusing the appointment of Lord Chief Justice.

Wallace explains that he is obsessed by a childhood memory of going through a green door in the street and finding himself in a magic garden with tropical flowers and birds. At critical moments in his life he has seen the door again, but has never entered, and because of this, he suffers from an overwhelming sense of deprivation despite his worldly success.

He leaves Redmond, telling him that if he sees the door again, he will enter it. Later, Redmond is called to identify the body of his old friend who, having walked through a green door, has fallen to his death on a bomb site.

Monthly Film Bulletin, July 1956