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

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.

• Release date
• December 21, 1956
• Runtime
• 80 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Crime
• Director
• Robert Day

Cast

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 John Chandos McKechnie