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Release Date: 1965
Cast: Anjanette Comer, Tab Hunter, Dana Andrews, Liberace, Barbara Nichols, Robert Morley, Roddy McDowall, Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, James Coburn, Lionel Stander, Paul Williams ...MORE
Cast: Anjanette Comer, Tab Hunter, Dana Andrews, Liberace, Barbara Nichols, Robert Morley, Roddy McDowall, Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, James Coburn, Lionel Stander, Paul Williams, John Gielgud, Milton Berle, Rod Steiger, Margaret Leighton ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Comedy Of Manners, Parody, Black Comedy, 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
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