Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 1533 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
WHERE THERE'S A WILL | 1980 | 1980-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 10 mins 36 secs Credits: Production Team: T Pursey, N & J Goodwin Subject: ARTS / CULTURE |
Summary Made by members of the Leeds Cine Club (later Leeds Movie Makers0, this is a dramatic comedy about a cat that inherits all its owner's riches at the expense of the housekeeper. |
Description
Made by members of the Leeds Cine Club (later Leeds Movie Makers0, this is a dramatic comedy about a cat that inherits all its owner's riches at the expense of the housekeeper.
Title: Leeds Cine Club presents 'Where There's A Will'
Production Team: T Pursey, N & J Goodwin
Starring 'Twiggy' the cat.
The titles are shown with by a picture of someone's Last Will and Testament.
The film opens on a woman, the housekeeper, collecting milk from her back door...
Made by members of the Leeds Cine Club (later Leeds Movie Makers0, this is a dramatic comedy about a cat that inherits all its owner's riches at the expense of the housekeeper.
Title: Leeds Cine Club presents 'Where There's A Will'
Production Team: T Pursey, N & J Goodwin
Starring 'Twiggy' the cat.
The titles are shown with by a picture of someone's Last Will and Testament.
The film opens on a woman, the housekeeper, collecting milk from her back door step. She pours some in a jug and takes it on a tray, with tea and biscuits, up to a woman convalescing in bed. The woman is sitting up knitting, accompanied by a cat. There are crutches and medicine by her side. The housekeeper has forgotten to bring the cup, and she gets a strong telling off from the invalid woman, who also demands that she takes the cat out.
Later the invalid woman is again up in bed knitting when she is visited by a man, a solicitor. But she doesn't notice that the door is not fully closed. Meanwhile the housekeeper listens from behind the door whilst the woman passes the solicitor her will which she has kept under the pillow. He discusses the will with her and then crosses a portion off and adds a further section. Up close we see, 'Delete housekeeper, ALL to cat'. The housekeeper leaves, as too does the man, taking the will with him.
In the kitchen, the housekeeper nearly trips over the cat and continues with her tasks, including feeding the cat. A letter arrives addressed to the house owner. The housekeeper picks it up and notices that it is from the solicitors. She opens the letter and reads the contents, the new will, and is clearly upset by what it states. The cat, meanwhile, looks content enough. The housekeeper goes back to the kitchen and gives the cat a clout with a cloth as it eats, accidently knocking over a bottle of poison in the process. The poison slowly drips into the sink where the potatoes are, having just been peeled. The cat goes to join its owner on the bed. The housekeeper puts the potatoes on to cook without noticing the jar of poison.
She then brings dinner, with the potatoes, to the woman in bed. But as she is still asleep the housekeeper takes the dinner back down to the kitchen. Noticing the time she decides to eat it herself. Meanwhile the cat jumps off the bed, accidently dragging an unravelling ball of wool with it. The wool gets entangles on the knob for the gas fire, and as the cat goes out it accidently turns the gas on, the ball of wool rolls on and somehow pushes the door closed. The woman continues to sleep as the gas builds up and the housekeeper carries on eating. The housekeeper collapses onto the floor dead, and the film finishes with the cat sitting contently on a pile of money.
The End
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