This is a comical fictional film made by George Douthwaite and friends of an extended joke involving a rather easy-going couple who are selling their house. Title – What a Sell! Story, W H Heys Script, L Jackson Camera, G B Douthwaite The film begins with a row of terraced houses, and in the window of one is a sign stating ‘Boarders taken in’, and ‘Wreaths and crosses made to order’.  A woman comes into the kitchen with a sliced loaf and a milk bottle which she tops up with water from out...

This is a comical fictional film made by George Douthwaite and friends of an extended joke involving a rather easy-going couple who are selling their house. Title – What a Sell! Story, W H Heys Script, L Jackson Camera, G B Douthwaite The film begins with a row of terraced houses, and in the window of one is a sign stating ‘Boarders taken in’, and ‘Wreaths and crosses made to order’.  A woman comes into the kitchen with a sliced loaf and a milk bottle which she tops up with water from out of a kettle.  A man arrives for breakfast and sits down to read a newspaper.  The woman, with an expression of displeasure, places a bowl of porridge in front of him.  He too is obviously unhappy with the porridge, and as he goes to throw it away she catches him with a fearsome glare and tells him off.  He finishes the porridge and she gives him a boiled egg.  As he begins to break it, the egg runs out and causes a smell which he tries to clear with a bottle of something.  He then notices an advert in the paper for a house for sale, which he puts a ring around. He takes the paper, leaves the house and walks up the road.  He calls at the house and gets shown around by a man wearing a blazer with a badge having a two crossed swords as an insignia and the initials ‘ EFC’.  As he goes to step into another room, the man states, in an intertitle, “my wife is entertaining a friend in here”.  As they go in, his wife is in a passionate embrace with another man on the sofa.  The man who is interested in buying looks quite astonished at this, while the man selling carries on as normal, showing him the room, as the couple continue kissing.  The two men sit down to talk, and they appear to discuss the situation with his wife.  Then the man selling says, “Well, should we go and discuss it over a drink?”  The other man replies, pointing to the next room, “Yes . . . b-b-but what about him in there?”  To which the man selling responds, “Oh, never mind him, he doesn’t drink!” The End (showing a dog) The Players The Landlady – Winifred Louth The Purchaser – Roland Illingworth The Husband – Dennis Adcock The Wife – Paula Gerich The Friend – Bill Gerich