Dear other reviewers: Basil Brush was based on Terry Thomas, not the other way round; it's "top hole" not "top hoe"; and "chop toad" is toad-in-the-hole made with chops instead of sausages (you bake them in batter and this particularly English delicacy has not been seen for about 50 years). Anyway, back to the plot. Alistair Sim is hilarious as a bomb-maker, and George Cole is if anything even funnier as a vacuum cleaner salesman "it beats as it sweeps as it cleans as it disinfects". The interiors should get a credit: the olde oake of "Windyridge", unchanged since the Arts and Crafts fashions of 1910 versus the pseudo-Regency of "Appleby", which is not going to go with Reginald's modern art (school of Klee or perhaps Bernard Buffet). I love the moment when Cole sits down at the piano to "play" one of the pictures! And imagine trying to get up to any hanky panky in a Victorian hotel where the kitchen shuts at 10. Michael Ripper excels in a small role as a waiter.
Review of The Green Man
