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The Green Man (1956)Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is ... See full summary » Director:Robert Day |
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Title: The Green Man (1956)
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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award.
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George Cole | ... |
William Blake
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Charles Boughtflower
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Ann Vincent
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Sir Gregory Upshott
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Marigold
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Joan Wood
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Lily
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McKechnie
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Sgt. Bassett
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Doctor
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Felicity
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Annabel
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Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green Man on the south coast, where Hawkins is planning to retire him for good. But before he can get on with this the hit-man has a procession of unwanted visitors at home to dispose of - one way or another. Written by Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk>
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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 SuspenseGenres:
ComedyParents Guide:
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21 December 1956 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Assassino di fiducia See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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(uncredited)
From the 'The Mikado', by Arthur Sullivan and William S. Gilbert
The second tune played by the trio
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The scene in which George Cole tries to phone the police and Alastair Sim tries to stop him was improvised. See more »Connections
Referenced in The Spirit of Christmas Past: George Cole Remembers Alastair Sim (2005) See more »Soundtracks
"A Wandering Minstrel I"(uncredited)
From the 'The Mikado', by Arthur Sullivan and William S. Gilbert
The second tune played by the trio
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As always Alistair Sim brings his genius for comedy to a great British farce from the fifties. He seems to give an effortless performance as ever, making today's so called "comic" actors a lesson on how to do it. Even Peter Sellers, good as he was, could not approach this guy. Unjustly underrated by the British Establishment (all too keen to shower knighthoods etc. on lesser talents)Sim can elicit mirth from the slightest gesture or subtle change of expression. And that voice!! Incredibly mellifluous and characterful, he delivers lines like no-one else can ,apart from , perhaps, Kelsey Grammar in "Frasier". Try to see all his movies and you will not regret it - when the movies are not so great he always is. Just because the films are old does not render them uninteresting or unwatchable. A pity younger movie buffs do not study actors like Sim any more.