The Green Man (1956)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Directors:

Robert Day
Basil Dearden

Writers:

Sidney Gilliat (play)
Sidney Gilliat (screenplay)

Release Date:

21 December 1956 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

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

Plot:

Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter...

Plot Keywords:

Black Comedy | Color In Title | Murder | Based On Play

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.

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
Eileen Moore	...	Joan Wood
Dora Bryan	...	Lily
John Chandos	...	McKechnie
Cyril Chamberlain	...	Sgt. Bassett
Richard Wattis	...	Doctor
Vivien Wood	...	Leader of Trio
Marie Burke	...	Felicity
Lucy Griffiths	...	Annabel

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Littleton House, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Grenadier Films Ltd.

Trivia:

Basil Dearden had a hand in the direction.

Movie Connections:

Remade as Vor Nachbarn wird gewarnt (1965) (TV)

Classic British farce

Great performance from Alistair Sim surely Britains greatest actor (well I think so), with good performances from the rest of the cast, especially Terry Thomas a top hoe old boy performance. The film is farcical in the best tradition of British farce, man caught in compromising position with another man's fiancée under a bed, man caught in compromising position with same fiancée in her under garments, a murder,a missing body, plus confusion and misunderstanding, but all good clean innocent fun, maybe the plot does contain more holes than a swiss cheese.....is that not what farce is meant to be, the audience see the outrageousness and implausibility of the situation while the characters think it's all perfectly normal and explainable, but above all the film is truly funny and it contains one of the funniest lines in British film comedy, when the character Reginald Willoughby-Cruft (Colin Gordon) confronts William Blake (George Cole) and says, "by heaven I'd thrash the life out of you, if I didn't have to read the 9 o'clock news." How much more British can you get!!