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Gerald GibbsCast:
Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Lowe, Peter Bull, Michael Ripper, Colin Gordon, Richard Wattis, Marie Burke, Raymond Huntley, Lucy Griffiths (more)VOD (1)
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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. (StudioCanal UK)
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An initially likeable bomber has to overcome a series of obstacles, layered one on top of the other in a Coen-like fashion, for his latest caper. Of course, there are some dead bodies and a lot of misunderstandings on the way to the fatal explosion, and this pitch-black comedy is one of the best surprises waiting for me on Netflix this year, thanks to all that and Alastair Sim.
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