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. However for his latest job things do not go like clockwork for Hawkins.
Upshott's spinster secretary that Hawkins has charmed for information has to be bumped off for knowing too much.
Then William Blake (George Cole) a vacuum cleaner salesman interrupts Hawkin's assistant and Blake finds bloodstains on the carpet.
Blake tries to alert pretty Ann Vincent whose house the murder might had taken place in. Her fiance Reginald Willoughby-Cruft is far from pleased to see her cavorting with Blake.
Both Blake and Ann discover the plot to kill Upshott at the Green Man pub where he plans to stay the night.
There is a touch of the Ealing comedy about this movie but even with its short running time it just cannot sustain all the goings on. It just gets a little tired too quickly although it takes a few well aimed potshots at middle England.
Sim is a hoot as the dastardly charmer. Cole is the naive nincompoop who tries to do the right thing and Vincent is feisty who realises that her fiance might not be right for her.
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. However for his latest job things do not go like clockwork for Hawkins.
Upshott's spinster secretary that Hawkins has charmed for information has to be bumped off for knowing too much.
Then William Blake (George Cole) a vacuum cleaner salesman interrupts Hawkin's assistant and Blake finds bloodstains on the carpet.
Blake tries to alert pretty Ann Vincent whose house the murder might had taken place in. Her fiance Reginald Willoughby-Cruft is far from pleased to see her cavorting with Blake.
Both Blake and Ann discover the plot to kill Upshott at the Green Man pub where he plans to stay the night.
There is a touch of the Ealing comedy about this movie but even with its short running time it just cannot sustain all the goings on. It just gets a little tired too quickly although it takes a few well aimed potshots at middle England.
Sim is a hoot as the dastardly charmer. Cole is the naive nincompoop who tries to do the right thing and Vincent is feisty who realises that her fiance might not be right for her.