
The Killer(2023)
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.


“The Kind of Picture the British Have a Way With...Things Like Very Merry Murders...Very Unusual Characters...Very Sly Sex...And All Combined in an Uproar of Laughs and Suspense”
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.

Alastair Sim
Hawkins

George Cole
William Blake

Terry-Thomas
Charles Boughtflower

Jill Adams
Ann Vincent

Raymond Huntley
Sir Gregory Upshott

Colin Gordon
Reginald Willoughby-Cruft

Avril Angers
Marigold

John Chandos
McKechnie

Eileen Moore
Joan Wood

Arthur Brough
Landlord
The Green Man is a comedy, crime film released in 1956 exploring themes of hotel, assassin, dark comedy, salesman, black and white, seaside. Directed by Robert Day, it stars Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas. Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
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