Movie · 1961
The Kitchen
Released 14 August 1961 74 min Comedy More from 1961 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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!
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How old were they?
Frank Atkinson
as Alfred
Charles Lloyd Pack
as Chef
Martin Boddey
as Max
Eric Pohlmann
as Marango
Carl Möhner
as Peter
Howard Greene
as Raymond
Mary Yeomans
as Monica
George Eugeniou
as Nick
Gertan Klauber
as Gaston
Tom Bell
as Paul
Brian Phelan
as Kevin
Sean Lynch
as Dimitri
James Bolam
as Michael
Scot Finch
as Hans
Frank Pettitt
as Frank
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The numbers
42years between the oldest and youngest billed
68Frank Atkinson — oldest on the call sheet
26James Bolam — youngest billed
39average age of the credited cast