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The Green Man [1956]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5060034577119
Label : Optimum Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Optimum Home Entertainment
Publisher : Optimum Home Entertainment
Release date : 2006-10-30
Title : The Green Man [1956]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1956-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 76
Studio : Optimum Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 1956

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Green Man is a charming film that carries a wickedly subversive streak of black humour sqarely on the back of Alastair Simms' disgruntled criminal mastermind. Planning to assassinate a windbag MP, his dastardly plot is embroiled in a comedy of errors when George Cole's vacuum cleaning demonstration turns up a corpse in the piano at Simms' Windyridge cottage. Teaming up with the long-legged neighbour Cole tracks down the bomb to a secret hideaway for the MP--a pub called the Green Man. This is the sort of masterful comedy that deftly gets away with confusing the audience who are never sure whose side they should be cheering. When Simms' carefully timed explosive device threatens to decimate a lounge bar trip of old dears, it is hilarious fun to be manipulated into hoping he can speed up their performance enough to whisk them to the safety of a gin and tonic elsewhere. This is a gem in both British comedy and the great Alastair Simms treasury. --Paul Tonks

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-12-06 rating:

Flawless British comedy
Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said by the other reviews? If you still haven't seen The Green Man, and you're still not convinced by the rave reviews on here, then there must be something wrong with you! Few films are perfect, but The Green Man comes pretty damn close! Alastair Sim is superb as always, as is George Cole and Terry Thomas, making this a highly watchable film for a cold Sunday afternoon. If I had to find one fault though, I'd say its not long enough!

review by: date: 2008-07-21 rating:

Outstanding black comedy.
The Green Man is a super black comedy. Eveything about this movie is great. Full of the superstars of their day. Real proper actings who can make people laugh. See a young George Cole, Alastair Sim and Terry Thomas.

The story line is good, a real story with some very funny sections. Well infact the whole film is very funny.

A great buy.

review by: Pommie Born, Aussie Bred date: 2008-04-03 rating:

Alistair Sim is brilliant
Wonderful black comedy. Any movie with Alistair Sim in it is bound to be enjoyable. I buy any DVD with him in it, and I have most of them. Eveything about this movie is totally charming, watch it on a cosy rainy day and get lost in all the fun and enjoy yourself

review by: date: 2007-09-20 rating:

Highly Entertaining Black Comedy

This is a wonderful black comedy starring the incomparable Alastair Sim as a clockmaker, who is secretly one of the world's foremost assassins. He takes a pride in his work, is self-important, and not used to things going wrong. However, when George Cole comes on the scene as a bungling vacuum cleaner salesman, Sim's latest assassination plans begin to unravel. Lots of laughs in this film, which is also available as a double set with 'School for Scoundrels' (Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Alastair Sim).

review by: date: 2007-09-02 rating:

Classic English farce with a dark sense of humour
This film's theatrical origins are very noticable, but it doesn't take away from the enjoyment at all. In fact it is quite filmic with some good location scenes. Sim is the trump card in the kind of role written for his brand of dark humour. It also boasts a very good screenplay full of satire about staid and civilised English life (as it was then), the stresses of embarking on elicit affairs, class snobbery and the British middle class' love of murder mysteries, contrasting with their own conservative lives. A good turn is put in by George Cole as the slightly vulgar but enthusiastic salesman who puts his foot in the way of cunning Alastair Sim's plans. Great old British fun that looks quite nostalgic now.

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