Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey (1925) plunges an eight-week-old marriage into a maelstrom of domestic pandemonium. What begins as a celebratory dinner for a newlywed couple quickly devolves into escalating chaos with the arrival of the groom's boisterous, roughneck brothers and the bride's doting, parrot-toting mother. A series of unfortunate accidents, including an alcohol-spiked soup and a parrot inadvertently trapped inside the cooked turkey, transform the evening into a relentless barrage of slapstick scares, tumbles, and frantic scrambles. Amidst this domestic bedlam, the husband's suspicions are piqued, leading him to believe his wife is engaged in a clandestine flirtation with his employer. The film then resolves this misunderstanding with a revelation: the wife and employer were merely orchestrating a surprise salary increase and a new contract for the husband, a secret that fuels much of the preceding comedic turmoil, ultimately restoring marital bliss after a night of pure, unadulterated farce.