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The Green Man (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Robert Day
Basil Dearden

Written By:
Sidney Gilliat

Actors:
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

Synopsis:

Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present target is windbag cabinet member Raymond Huntley. After various misfire attempts, Sim plants a bomb in a small radio and waits for the tube to warm up--but the authorities by now are on to him. The Green Man has some excellent setpieces, notably a droll snatch of black humor involving a body stuffed in a piano. The film's only debit is that, in the play upon which it is based, Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat's Meet the Body, Sim's character is secondary, almost peripheral. By reshaping the film into a star vehicle, much of the play's intimate (albeit ghoulish) charm is dissipated.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 04 June, 2008.

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