The Green Man
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
19561h 20mNo ratings yet
- Crime
- Comedy
Overview
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
Keywords
- dark comedy
- hotel
- black and white
- assassin
- salesman
- seaside
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 21, 1956
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Grenadier Films
- Cast
- Colin Gordon,Alastair Sim,Arthur Brough,Willoughby Goddard,John Chandos,Alexander Gauge,Avril Angers,Richard Wattis,Leslie Weston,Raymond Huntleyand 13 more
- Director
- Basil Dearden,Robert Day
- Writer
- Frank Launder,Sidney Gilliat
- Producer
- Frank Launder,Sidney Gilliat
- Cinematography
- Gerald Gibbs
- Music
- Cedric Thorpe Davie
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0050456