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Cold Turkey (1940)

Cold Turkey poster
Directed by
Del Lord
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
16 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man wins a live turkey in a company lottery during the winter holidays. His wife tells him to kill it for dinner, so he wanders around the apartment building carrying an axe, which makes people think he is a murderous lunatic.

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What happens

Cold Turkey è un cortometraggio statunitense del 1940, diretto da Del Lord, con Harry Langdon. Harry, in occasione delle feste invernali, vince ad una lotteria aziendale un tacchino natalizio. Il problema è che il tacchino è vivo. Quando la moglie gli dice di ucciderlo, Harry si aggira per il caseggiato brandendo un’ascia, ed è scambiato per un maniaco omicida. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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