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The Green Man

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NR,1hr 20min
Genres:
Action,Drama,Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1956
Director:
Robert Day
Starring:
Alastair Sim, George Cole, Jill Adams  ...more
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 ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Technically, The Green Man is just another '50s farce, with an elaborate plot line encompassing any number of silly complications, an overlay of sex (in the form of "naughty" jokes and shots of the heroine in a nightgown), and characters whose very names (Sir Gregory Upshoot and Charles Boughtflower) tell the audience all they need to know about them. If all it had was technique, The Green Man would ... Full Review
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Alastair Sim
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William Blake
Jill Adams
Ann Vincent
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