Comedy ·Crime · United Kingdom · 1956 · 1h 20m

The Green Man

Director

Cast

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

Crew

Gerald Gibbs — Director of Photography Bernard Gribble — Editor Cedric Thorpe Davie — Original Music Composer Sidney Gilliat — Screenplay Frank Launder — Screenplay Frank Launder — Producer

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

Synopsis

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.

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