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Release Date: 1965

Cast: Robert Morley, Barbara Nichols, Liberace, Anjanette Comer, Roddy McDowall, Milton Berle, Lionel Stander, Rod Steiger, Margaret Leighton, John Gielgud, Paul Williams, James Coburn ...MORE

Cast: Robert Morley, Barbara Nichols, Liberace, Anjanette Comer, Roddy McDowall, Milton Berle, Lionel Stander, Rod Steiger, Margaret Leighton, John Gielgud, Paul Williams, James Coburn, Tab Hunter, Dana Andrews, Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Comedy of manners, Black comedy

The Loved One is a 1965 black comedy film about the funeral business in Los Angeles, which is based on The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948), a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh. It was directed by British filmmaker Tony Richardson and the screenplay – which also drew on Jessica Mitford's book The American Way of Death (1963) – was written by noted American satirical novelist Terry Southern and British author Christopher Isherwood. Young Englishman Dennis Barlow (Robert Morse) wins an airline ticket and visits his uncle Sir Francis Hinsley (John Gielgud) in Los Angeles.... MORE

The Loved One is a 1965 black comedy film about the funeral business in Los Angeles, which is based on The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948), a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh. It was directed by British filmmaker Tony Richardson and the screenplay – which also drew on Jessica Mitford's book The American Way of Death (1963) – was written by noted American satirical novelist Terry Southern and British author Christopher Isherwood. Young Englishman Dennis Barlow (Robert Morse) wins an airline ticket and visits his uncle Sir Francis Hinsley (John Gielgud) in Los Angeles. Hinsley has worked as a production staffer at a major Hollywood studio for over thirty years. His employer D.J. Jr. (Roddy McDowall) fires Hinsley, despite the old man's faithful dedication to the company. Hinsley commits suicide by hanging himself. Dennis is swayed by a prominent member of the local English expatriate community to spend most of the money from his uncle's estate on a socially prestigious burial at Whispering Glades cemetery and mortuary where he soon meets and becomes infatuated with Aimee Thanatogenos (Anjanette Comer), a hopelessly naive and idealistic cosmetician who says she was LESS