Film Number

9585

Title

MIXED GRILL

Producer

H.D. Holden

Date

c1952-4

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

13 mins 55 secs

Description

A short comedy film about how man is 'dependent on his better half for the comfort of the inner man'. We see a man working in an office, and then he leaves for home and catches the bus with his friend. They arrive home and find his wife has gone out and left them food to prepare. The man prepares the food while his friend sets the table. The man preparing the food mixes cream of mushroom soup and mock turtle soup together which tastes so bad he throws it away, and the food he is cooking on the grill catches fire. Then he crushes the eggs. As the food preparation continues to go wrong his friend removes the relevant items from the table he has just set, until all they have left is coffee and cake. They leave the house to take a delivery and their wives arrive, and finding the table set up with the coffee and cake they sit down and help themselves.