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An irreverent black comedy adapted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat from their play, Meet a Body, The Green Man marked the directorial debut of camera operator Robert Day. A scintillating Alastair Sim plays Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part time job – he is also a professional assassin who bumps off the people we love to hate. But when the philandering MP Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley) is the intended target, vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake (George Cole) and Hawkins ...
The Green Man (1956) Hawkins (Alastair Sim), a reclusive clockmaker lives a normal unassuming life by day with a dangerous night job on the side - International Assassin. With one more hit on the agenda, Hawkins will once again be the number one man in his profession. 256 IMDb 7.1 1 h 19 min 1957. 13+. Comedy. This video is currently unavailable.
The Green Man is a farce and black comedy by writers Gilliat and Launder. Harry Hawkins (Alastair Sim) is a timid watchmaker and also a professional assassin. His targets are pompous windbags and petty dictators who get blown up by his devices. Hawkins latest target is self important businessman Sir Gregory Upshott.
A very silly but enormously entertaining farce that dutifully ticks all the genre's expected boxes (mistaken identities, compromising positions, much panicking and slamming of doors), The Green Man (d. Robert Day, 1956) was based on the play Meet A Body by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, who produced and adapted this big-screen version.
A teenage boy embarks on a summer of filmmaking in the Welsh countryside, seeking to process recent trauma by writing and directing his first film - a magical realist ‘druid creature feature’ set around the folkloric Green Man. This film-about-film depicts Will’s first foray into filmmaking as we encounter a blossoming imagination finding ...
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 Launder and Sidney Gilliat's Meet the Body, Sim's character is secondary, almost peripheral.
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.
