The Green Man
Comedy
Crime
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
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.
1956-12-21
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Cast
Director
Robert Day
Director
Basil Dearden
Alastair Sim as Hawkins
George Cole as William Blake
Terry-Thomas as Charles Boughtflower
Jill Adams as Ann Vincent
Raymond Huntley as Sir Gregory Upshott
Colin Gordon as Reginald Willoughby-Cruft
Avril Angers as Marigold
John Chandos as McKechnie
Eileen Moore as Joan Wood
Arthur Brough as Landlord
Dora Bryan as Lily
Richard Wattis as Doctor
Alexander Gauge as Chairman
Cyril Chamberlain as Sergeant Bassett
Marie Burke as Felicity
Lucy Griffiths as Annabel
Arthur Lowe as Radio Salesman
Peter Bull as General Niva
Willoughby Goddard as Statesman
Michael Ripper as Waiter