Anyone remember this short film.....

[Loosehead]

In the seventies before the main film at the cinema I once saw a short film about a chap, probably British who at the time held a whole lot of eating and drinking records, things like eating ice cream, drinking yards of ale, eating doughnuts etc, in between the scenes of these feats of gluttony he was seen walking, always carrying a house brick pinched between the fingers of one hand. It lasted about half an hour I suppose. A bit of a long shot but anyone else remember it? I'm sure it wasn't a dream! anyone know the name of the film/person?

[surreyman]

I dont remember seeing the film but the man you are thinking about may well be Peter Dowdeswell a Londoner who has held numerous eating & drinking records over the past 30 years.

He did an interview on TV about 20/25 years ago ( i think it was on Nationwide ) when he said that in a session he could down up to 30 pints but never went over the drink/drive limit when breathalysed because he has some weird metabolism, i hasten to add he did say he never actually drove whenever he drank.

[Loosehead]

Sounds promising, I'll have look around