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Bookmark this pageThe Green Man (1956)
Director: Robert Day, Basil Dearden
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From Time Out Film Guide
A splendid black comedy, adapted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat from their own play Meet a Body. Sim is up to his old tricks as a timid watchmaker who is a professional assassin in his spare time. All the right people get bumped off (headmasters, businessmen, and other assorted dictators), and the movie is quite vulgar enough to be funny. It is fascinating to compare Sim's hilarious schizophrenia with Alec Guinness in The Ladykillers. Inside every Englishman there lurks a ruthless criminal, impatient to steal scenes.Author: TCh
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- Joe Black said...
- Posted on Aug 17 2008 18:14 Brilliant black comedy with all the cast on top form especially Sim, Cole and sexy Jill Adams!
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Cast & crew
Director: Robert Day, Basil Dearden
Producer: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley, Eileen Moore, Avril Angers, Dora Bryan, John Chandos, Colin Gordon, Peter Bull, Arthur Lowe full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 80 mins
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