Jun 19th

The Green Man**                                           

(GB 1956)

British Lion/Grenadier. 80m. bw

A professional assassin's latest victim is thwarted by a bumbling vacuum cleaner salesman.
Amusing black comedy British thriller, the best since Kind Hearts and Coronets with Sim in good form, although the rest is rather overenergetic farce, but with a reliable set of British comedy faces.

Written/Produced by: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder, from their play "Meet a Body".
Director: Robert Day.
Starring: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley, Terry-Thomas, Dora Bryan, Colin Gordon, Avril Angers, John Chandos, Arthur Brough, Eileen Moore, Michael Ripper, Arthur Lowe.
Photography: Gerald Gibbs.
Music: Cedric Thorpe Davie.