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 ...
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Title: The Green Man (1956)
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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 | |
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Avril Angers | ... | Marigold |
| Eileen Moore | ... | Joan Wood | |
| Dora Bryan | ... | Lily | |
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John Chandos | ... | Mc Kechnie |
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Cyril Chamberlain | ... | Sergeant Bassett |
| Richard Wattis | ... | Doctor | |
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Vivien Wood | ... | Leader of Trio |
| Marie Burke | ... | Felicity | |
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Lucy Griffiths | ... | 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 {J-26}
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assassin | hotel | salesman | vacuum cleaner | killer as protagonist |Taglines:
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:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
21 December 1956 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Assassino di fiducia See more »Company Credits
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Hawkins: Ah! School days. The happiest days of one's life. I was a carefree innocent lad in those far off times. Only one thing clouded my youthful spirits: my abominable headmaster. Really, all I did was to put an electric charge in his fountain pen and an explosive in the inkpot. I honestly only intended to humiliate him. However, that got rid of him, and it also disposed of any doubts I may have had about my true vocation.
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(uncredited)
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Heard when the school photo is seen at the start of the film.
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The surnames used by Alastair Sim's character--Hastings, Ramsgate, Margate--are all names of coastal towns on the southeast coast of England. See more »Goofs
When the radio is "spinning" through the air, the wires holding it at each corner are visible. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Hawkins: Ah! School days. The happiest days of one's life. I was a carefree innocent lad in those far off times. Only one thing clouded my youthful spirits: my abominable headmaster. Really, all I did was to put an electric charge in his fountain pen and an explosive in the inkpot. I honestly only intended to humiliate him. However, that got rid of him, and it also disposed of any doubts I may have had about my true vocation.
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Gaudeamus igitur(uncredited)
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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.