Summary
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.
Synopsis
A bride of eight weeks and her husband prepare to celebrate. The groom's two roughneck brothers are on the scene and then the girl's mother arrives, bringing a parrot. By accident some alcohol spills into the soup and later when the parrot gets inside the cooked turkey and makes it trot about there is much excitement, with scares and various sorts of tumbles and scrambles continuing throughout the night. Events make the husband suspect his wife of a flirtation with his employer, but this is explained away when the husband finds that he is receiving an increase in salary and a new contract, a secret which the wife and the employer have been keeping as a surprise.
