Nourish the Beast

Nourish the Beast — Plot

Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan. In Queens she presides over a household comprised of a childish orphan who happens to be a cop, an elderly gentleman who explodes every time somebody calls him grandpa, a dying husband and an errant daughter who cries all night. The husband, Baba's fifth, is already submitting an ad for her sixth. The cop catches a Japanese stealing cameras and chains him to a radiator, the daughter guiltily confesses she voted for Nixon and runs off, and the husband-who may not die after all-insists they must wait out Watergate for a Democrat.

• Release date
• June 5, 1974
• Runtime
• 90 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Norman Lloyd

Nourish the Beast — Cast

Eileen Brennan Baba Goya John Randolph Mario Pamela Bellwood Sylvia John Beck Bruno Randall Duk Kim Criminal Will Lee Old Man Geoffrey Scott Studley Kenneth Tigar Adolph