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The Green Man (1956)
Directed by Robert Day, Basil Dearden
“The Kind of Picture the British Have a Way With...Things Like Very Merry Murders...Very Unusual Characters...Very Sly Sex...And All Combined in an Uproar of Laughs and Suspense”
Comedy, Crime · 1h 20m
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
Cast
Alastair Sim
Hawkins
George Cole
William Blake
Terry-Thomas
Charles Boughtflower
Jill Adams
Ann Vincent
Raymond Huntley
Sir Gregory Upshott
Colin Gordon
Reginald Willoughby-Cruft
Avril Angers
Marigold
John Chandos
McKechnie
Eileen Moore
Joan Wood
Arthur Brough
Landlord
Dora Bryan
Lily
Richard Wattis
Doctor
Crew
- Director
- Robert Day, Basil Dearden
- Screenplay
- Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
- Director of Photography
- Gerald Gibbs
- Original Music Composer
- Cedric Thorpe Davie
- Editor
- Bernard Gribble
- Producer
- Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Details
- Release date
- 1956-12-21
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Grenadier Films