The Fat and the Lean (Le gros et le maigre). Roman Polanski, 1961.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion DVD #215 Knife in the Water, released 2003. Scored and with an effects track; no dialogue. Runtime approximately 15 minutes.
Summary: Cheap humor with a dead goose and mindless beating of agrarian animals.
Details:
1) A goose has been shot and falls from the sky at 2:58. Polanski puts the goose in the oven and indulges in some ‘comedy’ with the bird’s head caught in the oven door, 3:09, and again at 3:34.
2) A friendly white goat is hit on the back of the head for no reason while she is being milked, 7:14, and again at 11:48.