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Writers:
Sidney Gilliat (play)
Sidney Gilliat (screenplay)
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Release Date:
21 December 1956 (France) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
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
Plot:
Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
User Comments:
Hilarious overlooked gem of British cinema more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
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
Eileen Moore ... Joan Wood
Dora Bryan ... Lily
John Chandos ... McKechnie
Cyril Chamberlain ... Sgt. Bassett
Richard Wattis ... Doctor
Vivien Wood ... Leader of Trio
Marie Burke ... Felicity
Lucy Griffiths ... Annabel
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Basil Dearden had a hand in the direction. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as Vor Nachbarn wird gewarnt (1965) (TV) more

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12 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Hilarious overlooked gem of British cinema, 14 October 2003
Author: jakeboy (johnrob@uclink4.berkeley.edu) from Berkeley, California

The Green Man is one of those movies that used to get a good deal of play on PBS stations but now seems to have disappeared. Too bad. It's a very funny example of wicked British black humor. The always excellent Alastair Sim plays an assassin attempting to blow up a fatuous politician who has found a hide-away for a tryst with his timid secretary. Raymond Huntley (perhaps best known as the family lawyer in "Upstairs, Downstairs") delivers the most hilarious soliloquy ever heard on the practices of English gastronomy in general and chopped toad as a delicacy in particular. Colin Gordon, familiar as one of the few actors to appear twice as Number Two in The Prisoner, does a send up of a rather precious poet who resembles T. S. Eliot. Wish this would appear on DVD.

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