The Kitchen
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
James Hill
Carl Mohner
Mary Yeomans
Brian Phelan
Tom Bell
Howard Greene
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The kitchen of a large, busy London restaurant owned by Mr. Marango is staffed with workers of many national and cultural origins--Germans, Jews, Greeks, Cypriots, Irish, and English. One particular day begins calmly with preparations for the luncheon meal, but as the rush starts and the waitresses stream in shouting orders, tension mounts and tempers explode. In the afternoon lull, Peter, the German cook, encourages his co-workers to dream of a better life beyond the kitchen. Later, as work begins on the evening repast, Peter realizes that his love affair with one of the waitresses, Monica, will never go anywhere; that she, now pregnant, has decided not to divorce her husband. Suddenly going berserk, Peter storms through the kitchen in a savage fury, smashing everything in sight. After his rampage ends, work stops as the cooks bandage Peter's bruised and bloody hands. Marango, the bewildered restaurant proprietor, stands amidst the debris and cannot understand why anyone would want to destroy his world.
Director
James Hill
Cast
Carl Mohner
Mary Yeomans
Brian Phelan
Tom Bell
Howard Greene
Eric Pohlmann
James Bolam
Scot Finch
Gertan Klauber
Martin Boddey
Sean Lynch
Joseph Behrman
George Eugeniou
Frank Pettitt
Charles Lloyd Pack
Frank Atkinson
Andreas Markos
Jeanne Hepple
Patricia Greene
Jessie Robins
Fanny Carby
Patricia Clapton
Lynn Barton
Claire Isbister
Veronica Wells
Gwen Nelson
Jennifer Wallace
Joan Geary
Rosalind Knight
Ida Goldapple
Susan Field
Nilo Christian
Madeline Leon
Ruth Meyers
Andreas Constantine
Andreas Lysandrou
Crew
Ralph Bond
Sidney Cole
Sidney Cole
Alec Gibb
Gerry Hambling
Claude Hitchcock
William Kellner
David Lee
Herbert R. Smith
Les Vandyke
John Workman
Reginald Wyer
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
Opened in London in August 1961; running time: 74 min. Original length: 76 min.
