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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 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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dead body in a car trunk | assassin | hotel | salesman | vacuum cleaner |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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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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The interior sets for the two houses are the reverse of the real life exteriors. The sets show the stairs and landing window to the left of the front door for each house but the exterior shots show the landing windows to the right. 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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Great Ealing farce in the Kind Hearts and Coronets murder-comedy stylee, revolving around Sim's hitman (specialising in slapstick bomb-hits) plotting the death of a prominent businessman, and George Cole's vacuum cleaner salesman, out to thwart the killer...Room for plenty of comedy shenanigans as the top cast blunder around leaving clues and confusing each other, building to a climax at the country inn of the title. Thoroughly enjoyable for fans of the genre, with just a little bit of Terry-Thomas thrown in near the end to add his unique suave zest to a very appealing mix. Expect the thrills to come from Sim's eyebrows and laid-back attitude, and Terry-Thomas' 'tache, rather than the plot.