A Piece of Cake (1948)

Directors

John Irwin

Cast

Cyril Fletcher, Betty Astell, Laurence Naismith, Jon Pertwee

The story

In the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril Clarke composes comical odes for an act for the BBC. As his wife Betty continuously interrupts him to remind him that he needs to obtain supplies from his "under-the counter" contacts for the dinner party they are hosting that evening, he creates an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. When he later falls asleep at his desk, he dreams that Merlin has become real and grants his host's wishes for those rationed items of drink and fine food, not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but obtaining them from other people's…

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