The Green Man Blu-ray
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Posted April 1, 2020 03:21 PM by Webmaster
StudioCanal will add to its vintage Classic Collection Robert Day's film The Green Man (1956), starring Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, and Raymond Huntley. The release will be available for purchase on May 18.
Synopsis: An irreverent black comedy adapted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat from their play, Meet a Body, The Green Man marked the directorial debut of camera operator Robert Day.
A scintillating Alastair Sim plays Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part time job - he is also a professional assassin who bumps off the people we love to hate. But when the philandering MP Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley) is the intended target, vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake (George Cole) and Hawkins' new neighbour Ann Vincent (Jill Adams) repeatedly get in the way. As the time of the assassination draws ever closer and Hawkins tracks his victim to a dilapidated seaside hotel called the Green Man, the laughs and the tension steadily rise to a brilliant climax. An enormously entertaining farce that ticks all the genre's boxes (mistaken identities, compromising positions, much panicking and slamming of doors), the film makes an interesting companion piece to Ealing's The Ladykillers (1955).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: An irreverent black comedy adapted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat from their play, Meet a Body, The Green Man marked the directorial debut of camera operator Robert Day.
A scintillating Alastair Sim plays Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part time job - he is also a professional assassin who bumps off the people we love to hate. But when the philandering MP Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley) is the intended target, vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake (George Cole) and Hawkins' new neighbour Ann Vincent (Jill Adams) repeatedly get in the way. As the time of the assassination draws ever closer and Hawkins tracks his victim to a dilapidated seaside hotel called the Green Man, the laughs and the tension steadily rise to a brilliant climax. An enormously entertaining farce that ticks all the genre's boxes (mistaken identities, compromising positions, much panicking and slamming of doors), the film makes an interesting companion piece to Ealing's The Ladykillers (1955).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K 10BIT RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- NEW Alastair Sim and The Green Man: Interview Stephen Fry
- NEW Interview with cultural historian Matthew Sweet
- Those British Faces: Alastair Sim
- Stills gallery
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
