The Green Shoes

A curious choice for actor George Cole,almost playing a much more serious variation on his standard 'worried and wimpy' comic roles he had made a living out of in his British film career,this time in a short film.The twist ending is fairly obvious,but the film is watchable;it probably would have worked better as a TV half-hour drama rather than a film.

THE GREEN SHOES once turned up on late night UK TV in the 1980's;it has vanished from view since.Some other UK short films of the 1960's like RHUBARB(1969),OUCH!(1967),and perhaps most famously of all,the featurette THE PLANK(1967)regularly made showings on UK TV in the 1970's;the aforementioned have also made similar disappearing acts.