The Green Man (film)
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Duration Music director Cedric Thorpe Davie Country United Kingdom | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Running time 1h 20m Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Robert Day, Basil Dearden Writer Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliat Release date 1956 Initial release September 18, 1956 (United Kingdom) Screenplay Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat Cast Alastair Sim (Hawkins), George Cole (William Blake), Terry-Thomas (Charles Boughtflower), Jill Adams (Ann Vincent), Raymond Huntley (Sir Gregory Upshott)Similar movies Terry-Thomas and George Cole appear in The Green Man and Too Many Crooks 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Green Man is a 1956 British black comedy film based on the play Meet a Body by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, who produced and adapted the big-screen version.
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Plot
Freelance assassin Hawkins (Sim) is contracted to blow up Sir Gregory Upshott, a Cabinet minister (Huntley), and to that end he feigns courtship of Upshott's secretary, Marigold (Angers). He decides to do the deed at the Green Man Hotel, where Upshott will be spending an illicit weekend. However, Hawkins' plan is accidentally uncovered by vacuum cleaner salesman Blake (Cole) who forges an unlikely alliance with Ann (Adams) who is engaged to a rather stuffy BBC announcer, Willoughby-Cruft (Gordon). That relationship breaks down when Willoughby-Cruft finds his fiancée under their bed with Blake and later, in her lingerie, accidentally entangled on the floor with him. There are some romantic, and some not-at-all romantic, interludes as Hawkins tries to deliver his bomb.
Cast
Production
Cole's then wife, Eileen Moore, appeared in the film as the typist with whom Upshott has a liaison.
The film, rated U, has been re-released on Region 2 DVD with School for Scoundrels.
Novel
The film was produced some 13 years prior to a Kingsley Amis novel The Green Man. There are no connections between the two.
References
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