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Dinner for One

Dinner for One

Dinner for One

1963
Comedy
TV Special
18m
A very old woman wants to have dinner with her friends. As they are all dead, the butler has to play the role of every guest. He does a very good job, but wine can get you easily drunk, when you're drinking it for six people! (imdb)

Directed by:

Heinz Dunkhase
Heinz-Dunkhase
Heinz Dunkhase
1 total credit
Credits include: Dinner for One
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Starring:

Freddie Frinton
Freddie-Frinton
Freddie Frinton
5 total credits
Credits include: Dinner for One, What a Whopper, Trouble in the Air, Penny Points to Paradise and Forces' Sweetheart
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, May Warden
May-Warden
May Warden
1 total credit
Credits include: Dinner for One
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, Heinz Piper
Heinz-Piper
Heinz Piper
1 total credit
Credits include: Dinner for One
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Genre:

Comedy

AKA:

Der 90. Geburtstag

Country:

West Germany

Languages:

English, German
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Dinner for One

1963
Comedy
TV Special
18m
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magbMagb
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04 Feb 2008
65
30th
This sketch enjoys enduring and bewildering popularity in Europe, and is shown every year one New Year's Eve in many countries. It's reasonably funny.
04 Feb 2008
rotaciravrotacirav
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03 Sep 2024
40
14th
It is said that Germans find this terrifically funny, a case in point for the humourlessness stereotype. Mostly older Germans in my experience though.
03 Sep 2024
nathanbatesNathanBates
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14 Dec 2021
60
36th
With plans to be away from my family this year at Christmas, I surfed for "recipes for one" which somehow led to this short film with a reasonably similar title that apparently is quite popular in Europe at this season. I didn't find it outrageously funny, but there's something to the "same procedure this year" that I empathize with. Worth watching once, just to see what the fuss is about.
14 Dec 2021
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07 Jan 2021
4
72nd
Not much to say - just a classic! *Good
07 Jan 2021
methad1methad1
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31 Dec 2017
60
33rd
A short, good-fun watch.
31 Dec 2017
closefriendCloseFriend
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24 Jun 2013
36
10th
I found the premise fascinatingly Faulkner-esque, but the actual humor just did not do it for me at all.
24 Jun 2013
sirstuckeySirStuckey
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22 Nov 2012
60
36th
It's alright. Kind of repetitive but it's only 11 minutes so it's not to the point of tedium.
22 Nov 2012
chmulcr0nchmul_cr0n
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17 Nov 2011
60
28th
so dumb :D
17 Nov 2011
donkeyjellydonkeyjelly
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26 Jul 2011
68
38th
One of the more baffling instances of something unknown in its country of production becoming insanely popular elsewhere. Given its most famous quote - "the same procedure as every year" - it's also oddly appropriate that many countries show it once a year...or perhaps that's the point. Does happen to be pretty funny nonetheless.
26 Jul 2011
peaceanarchyPeaceAnarchy
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13 Jan 2010
66
18th
There are basically two jokes in the film repeated ad nauseum for 11 minutes. I was mildly amused and the execution of the jokes is at least varied a little, not much here though.
13 Jan 2010
nandorizzinandorizzi
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26 Feb 2009
75
71st
Funny and classic.
26 Feb 2009
harukoHaruko
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11 Jan 2009
61
22nd
Seen it once and see no reason to watch it again. Some traditions should just be forgotton.
11 Jan 2009
joeroxyjoeroxy
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02 Jan 2009
70
51st
very good new year's eve timefiller
02 Jan 2009
cagedwisdomcagedwisdom
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23 Dec 2008
75
65th
Being a Norwegian this film is about 50% of what makes up Christmas for me. Excellent and hilarious.
23 Dec 2008
thedicemanTheDiceman
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26 Mar 2007
20
4th
I had seen this billed as one of the most loved TV sketches in the world,SO I got a copy to have a look for myself.I dont remember laughing at any point.It had all been done a very long long time before this sketch came to light and done a lot better then.
26 Mar 2007
isitsafeIsItSafe?
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30 Nov -0001
54
30th
Much better quality than than the English version, so I suggest anyone choosing to watch watches this. Dinner for One, a strange oddity. Supremely popular on the continent, for what I assume the reason of which is laughing in the face of presumed eccentric patrician. The comedy here doesn't really strike a chord with me. It is amusing to see the the gradual deterioration of the pedantic, and how that very deterioration itself becomes inadvertently pedantic. Sort of a poetic Chaos.
30 Nov -0001

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Heinz Dunkhase
Heinz-Dunkhase
Heinz Dunkhase
1 total credit
Credits include: Dinner for One
Read more

Starring:

Freddie Frinton
Freddie-Frinton
Freddie Frinton
5 total credits
Credits include: Dinner for One, What a Whopper, Trouble in the Air, Penny Points to Paradise and Forces' Sweetheart
Read more
, May Warden
May-Warden
May Warden
1 total credit
Credits include: Dinner for One
Read more
, Heinz Piper
Heinz-Piper
Heinz Piper
1 total credit
Credits include: Dinner for One
Read more

Genre:

Comedy

AKA:

Der 90. Geburtstag

Country:

West Germany

Languages:

English, German
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