The Green Man (film)

The Green Man
Movie poster
Directed by	Robert Day Basil Dearden
Written by	Frank Launder Sidney Gilliat
Starring	Alastair Sim George Cole Terry-Thomas Jill Adams
Music by	Cedric Thorpe Davie
Cinematography	Gerald Gibbs
Release dates	1956
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Green Man is a 1956 British black comedy film based on the play Meet a Body by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, who produced and adapted the big-screen version.

Plot

Freelance assassin Hawkins (Sim) has plans to blow up Sir Gregory Upshott, a Cabinet minister (Huntley) when the latter is discovered to be having an affair, about to be consummated at the Green Man Hotel. However his plans are accidentally uncovered and foiled by vacuum cleaner salesman Blake (Cole) who forges an unlikely alliance with Ann (Adams), engaged to be married to a rather stuffy BBC announcer, Willoughby-Cruft (Gordon). The latter relationship breaks down when Willoughby-Cruft finds his fiancée under their bed with Blake and later, in her lingerie, accidentally entangled on the floor with him. As such, there are some romantic (and not-at-all romantic) interludes and Hawkins briefly has the task of trying to deal with Upshott's secretary, a friendly policeman, and prepare his bomb at the same time.

Cast

Alastair Sim as Harry Hawkins
George Cole as William Blake
Terry-Thomas as Charles Boughtflower
Jill Adams as Ann Vincent
Raymond Huntley as Sir Gregory Upshott
Colin Gordon as Reginald Willoughby-Cruft
Avril Angers as Marigold
Dora Bryan as Lily
John Chandos as McKechnie
Cyril Chamberlain as Police Sergeant Bassett
Richard Wattis as Doctor
Lucy Griffiths as Annabel
Arthur Brough as Landlord
Arthur Lowe as Radio salesman
Eileen Moore as Sir Gregory's weekend companion, Joan Moore
Alexander Gauge as Chairman
Peter Bull as General Niva
Willoughby Goddard as Statesman
Michael Ripper as Waiter

Production

Cole's then wife, Eileen Moore, appeared in the film as the typist with whom Upshott has a liaison.

The film, rated U, has been re-released on Region 2 DVD with School for Scoundrels.

Novel

It was produced some 13 years prior to a Kingsley Amis novel of the same name. There are no connections between the two.

External links

The Green Man at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Robert Day

The Green Man (1956)
Strangers' Meeting (1957)
The Haunted Strangler (1958)
Corridors of Blood (1958)
First Man into Space (1959)
Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959)
Bobbikins (1959)
Two-Way Stretch (1960)
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)
The Rebel (1961)
Operation Snatch (1962)
Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963)
She (1965)
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
The Big Game (1972)
The Great American Beauty Contest (1973)
The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
Peter and Paul (1981)
Beyond Witch Mountain (1982)
Love, Mary (1985)
The Quick and the Dead (1987)
Celebration Family (1987)

Films directed by Basil Dearden

The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
The Goose Steps Out (1942)
The Bells Go Down (1943)
My Learned Friend (1943)
The Halfway House (1944)
Dead of Night (1945)
They Came to a City (1945)
The Captive Heart (1946)
Frieda (1947)
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
Train of Events (1949)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
Cage of Gold (1950)
Pool of London (1951)
I Believe in You (1952)
The Gentle Gunman (1952)
The Square Ring (1953)
The Rainbow Jacket (1954)
Out of the Clouds (1955)
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
Who Done It? (1956)
The Green Man (1956)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Violent Playground (1958)
Sapphire (1959)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Man in the Moon (1960)
The Secret Partner (1961)
Victim (1961)
All Night Long (1962)
Life for Ruth (1962)
The Mind Benders (1963)
A Place to Go (1963)
Woman of Straw (1964)
Masquerade (1965)
Khartoum (1966)
Only When I Larf (1968)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)

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