The Kitchen

The Kitchen

74 mins | Comedy | Aug. 14, 1961

In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!

The Kitchen

74 mins | Comedy | Aug. 14, 1961

The Kitchen
In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!
Producers British Lion Films, Association of Cinema Technicians (A.C.T.)
Original title The Kitchen
Directors Lorna Selwyn, James Hill
Writers Arnold Wesker, Sidney Cole

Cast

Carl Möhner

as Peter

Mary Yeomans

as Monica

Eric Pohlmann

as Marango

Scot Finch

as Hans

Brian Phelan

as Kevin

Tom Bell

as Paul

Sean Lynch

as Dimitri

Gertan Klauber

as Gaston

James Bolam

as Michael

Howard Greene

as Raymond

Martin Boddey

as Max

Frank Pettitt

as Frank

Frank Atkinson

as Alfred

George Eugeniou

as Nick

Jessie Robins

as Bertha

Dafydd Havard

as Tramp

Patricia Greene

as Anne

Andreas Markos

as Mangolis

Fanny Carby

as Winnie

Rosalind Knight

as Daphne

Jennifer Wallace

as Tall Waitress

Ruth Meyers

as Waitress

Jeanne Hepple

as Waitress

Veronica Wells

as Waitress

Gwen Nelson

as Waitress

Patricia Clapton

as Jiving Waitress

Lynn Barton

as Jiving Waitress

Claire Nielson

as Waitress