#My husband hides his beauty kiss tv
The New York Times TV section noted "Weekend at a horrible little country hotel, same name, and one of the funniest British films ever" the Radio Times wrote "If you ever doubted that Alastair Sim was the finest British screen comedian of the sound era, then here's the proof of his immense talent. The film, rated U, has been re-released on Region 2 DVD with School for Scoundrels. Michael Ripper as Waiter at the Green ManĬole's then-wife, Eileen Moore, appeared in the film as the typist with whom Upshott has a liaison.Lucy Griffiths as Annabel, member of Hotel string trio.Marie Burke as Felicity, member of Hotel string trio.Vivien Wood as Leader of the Hotel string trio.Richard Wattis as the doctor called by Blake.Eileen Moore as Sir Gregory's weekend companion, Joan Wood.Cyril Chamberlain as Police Sergeant Bassett.Dora Bryan as Lily, the receptionist and barmaid at the Green Man.Colin Gordon as Reginald Willoughby-Cruft.Terry-Thomas as Charles Boughtflower, a guest at the Green Man.They stop driving and share their first kiss. Hawkins is stopped by the police as he tries to drive off.ĭriving back to London, Ann and William hear her fiancé Reginald speaking on the radio: he is reading a poem, but breaks off in the middle to deliver into the microphone a vicious and impassioned diatribe about Ann. William has the brainwave that it will be on a timer in the radio, which he therefore throws towards the sea seconds before it explodes. Meanwhile Upshott sits closer to the radio to hear an article about himself. William realises the time on the hall clock was wrong. Hawkins has put the radio on in the lounge. Meanwhile Ann and William cannot get the landlord to believe their story, try to evacuate the place and locate the bomb. Hawkins encourages them to play faster and join him again in the bar. The trio starts playing in the lounge again. But the time reaches 22:28 and they dive for cover. They wrongly assume that the name "Boughtflower" is false and track him down. Not knowing what Upshott looks like or what name he will register under, Ann and William rush there and decide he will be alone and under a false name. Hawkins takes the three ladies for a drink in the bar just as Upshott and his secretary rise to take their meal.
Hawkins arrives and sits in the lounge pretending to enjoy a violin concerto played by three mature ladies. The waiter tells them they must order food before 10pm because of the Catering Act. Meanwhile a new group of figures assemble at The Green Man: Upshott arrives with his shy young secretary Joan, but wants a drink before he registers. William and Ann then face another moment of horror as the "corpse" staggers into the house through the French doors and, before collapsing again, tells them that Upshott will be blown up that night in the Green Man by a bomb at precisely 22:28. Reginald's second furious exit creates doubt over the future relationship. The two are terrified, and when Reginald returns home he finds them lying on the floor next to the bed, with his fiancée on top of the stranger. He then alerts the house owner Reginald's pretty fiancée, Ann. The body is found by a young vacuum cleaner salesman called William Blake who calls there, and he first goes next door and accidentally alerts Hawkins, who has his assistant move the body. Finding out his treachery, the secretary comes to his house to confront him but is attacked and left for dead by Hawkins' assistant McKechnie who, as nobody is next door, hides the body there (in a grand piano). Hawkins hides a bomb in a radio, which he plans to leave in the hotel lounge.
By courting Upshott's spinster secretary, Marigold, he learns that his target will be taking one of the firm's typists for a weekend at a seaside hotel called "The Green Man". Harry Hawkins is a freelance assassin who is contracted to blow up Sir Gregory Upshott, a prominent and pompous London businessman. 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.
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