The Kitchen (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!
Director: James Hill
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Carl Möhner as Peter |
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Mary Yeomans as Monica |
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Eric Pohlmann as Marango |
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Scot Finch as Hans |
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Brian Phelan as Kevin |
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Tom Bell as Paul |
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Sean Lynch as Dimitri |
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Gertan Klauber as Gaston |
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James Bolam as Michael |
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Howard Greene as Raymond |
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Charles Lloyd Pack as Chef |
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Martin Boddey as Max |
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Frank Pettitt as Frank |
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Frank Atkinson as Alfred |
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George Eugeniou as Nick |
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Jessie Robins as Bertha |
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Dafydd Havard as Tramp |
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Patricia Greene as Anne |
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Josef Behrmann as Mag |
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Andreas Markos as Mangolis |
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Fanny Carby as Winnie |
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Rosalind Knight as Daphne |
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Jennifer Wallace as Tall Waitress |
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Ruth Meyers as Waitress |
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Jeanne Hepple as Waitress |
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Veronica Wells as Waitress |
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Gwen Nelson as Waitress |
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Patricia Clapton as Jiving Waitress |
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Lynn Barton as Jiving Waitress |
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Andreas Constantine as Porter |
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Claire Nielson as Waitress |
| Art | Gerry Hambling | Art Direction |
| Sound | David Lee | Music |
| Art | Freda Pearson | Set Decoration |
| Writing | Sidney Cole | Writer |
| Production | Sidney Cole | Producer |
| Directing | James Hill | Director |
| Writing | Arnold Wesker | Writer |
| Camera | Wally Fairweather | Focus Puller |
| Directing | Lorna Selwyn | Continuity |
| Camera | Reginald H. Wyer | Director of Photography |