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The Green Man 1956: A Masterpiece of Black Humor and Thrilling Action



The Green Man is a 1956 black and white 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.[1][2]


A very silly but enormously entertaining farce that dutifully ticks all the genre's expected boxes (mistaken identities, compromising positions, much panicking and slamming of doors), The Green Man (d. Robert Day, 1956) was based on the play Meet A Body by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, who produced and adapted this big-screen version.




The Green Man 1956



Top screen Grab from the 1956 British comedy-drama film The Green Man starring Alistair Sim,George Cole and Terry Thomas here Mr Sim enters Chancery Lane Tube Station...Another view here from a previous old n new shot showing the Barclays Bank on the corner www.flickr.com/photos/rollthedice/5150285332/ note the tree has grown up a lot!!....and the roundel now says `Underground`and not `London Transport`.........


The Green Man (1956) A wonderfully entertaining and beautifully acted farce that encompasses all the genre's typical requirements (innocent yet compromising positions, confusion of identities, door slamming, panic and yet more panic). The Green Man is based on the play "Meet A Body" by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, who also produced and adapted this film version. Although Alastair nominally plays the villain we cannot help but sympathise with mild-mannered clockmaker and part-time professional assassin Harry Hawkins as he attempts to rid the world of pompous frauds, be they headmasters, dictators or, as in his current assignment, elected politicians. Full synopsis


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