Summary
"Hawkins, a professional assassin, is reactivated to do away with Sir Gregory Upshott, a politician. Hawkins tracks his quarry to a decrepit seaside resort called The Green Man and here waits to spring his trap. Hawkins is disguised as a simple clockmaker. He has planted a bomb to be exploded just when Sir Gregory arrives, but the victim does not appear. Vacuum salesman William Blake, a bumbler of the first rank, stumbles upon the plot and conducts a wild search for the killer at the inn, never for a moment suspecting the meek-mannered Hawkins. At the last minute he unearths the bomb and, seconds before it explodes, throws it out of a window and literally undoes Hawkins."--The motion picture guide, v. 3, p. 1111.Additional Information
| Subjects |
Launder, Frank
-- Film adaptations.
Gilliat, Sidney -- Film adaptations. Assassination -- Drama. Disguise -- Drama. Resorts -- England -- Drama. Man-woman relationships -- Drama. Comedy films. Detective and mystery films. Film adaptations. Feature films. Motion pictures, British. |
| Publisher | [Burbank, CA] :Hollywood's Attic,2009 |
| Other Titles | Meet a body. |
| Contributors |
Day, Robert,
1922-2017 director. Sim, Alastair, 1900-1976, actor. Cole, George, 1925-2015 actor. Terry-Thomas, 1911-1990, actor. Adams, Jill, actor. Thorpe Davie, Cedric, 1913-1983, composer. Gilliat, Sidney, screenwriter, producer. Launder, Frank. Meet a body. Grenadier Films Productions Ltd., production company. British Lion Films, film distributor. Hollywood's Attic (Firm), publisher. |
| Participants/Performers |
Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley, Colin Gordon, Avril Angers, John Chandos, Eileen Moore, Arthur Brough, Dora Bryan. |
| Other Contributors |
Director of photography, Gerald Gibbs; editor, Bernard Gribble; music, Cedric Thorpe Davie. |
| Language |
English In English. |
| Notes |
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1956. Based on the play Meet a body / by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. |
| System Details |
DVD, all regions. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Other | Classic View |