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
Starring: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley
Writer: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
December 21, 1956
6.9 / 10
Robert Day & Basil Dearden
Grenadier Films
Overview
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.