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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569678224
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 9034
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 11, 1965
Editorial Review:
Description:
The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and directed with inspired verve by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). But the American way of death isn't the film's only target: sex, greed, religion and mother love are also in the crosshairs of its satirical shots. Robert Morse plays a bemused would-be poet who gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur (Jonathan Winters), a mom-obsessed mortician (Rod Steiger) and other bizarre characters played by such adept farceurs as John Gielgud, Robert Morley, Tab Hunter, Milton Berle, James Coburn and Liberace. If The Loved One doesn't make you laugh, call the undertaker!
DVD Features:
Featurette:Trying to Offend Everyone
Theatrical Trailer
Amazon.com:
In olden days, as Cole Porter famously observed, a mere glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. So it's heartening to report that this 1965 black comedy still delivers on its billing as 'the motion picture with something to offend everyone.' Tony Richardson, fresh off the liberating Tom Jones, brings Evelyn Waugh's self-described 'little nightmare' to the screen with all its sacrilegious shocks (and then some!) intact, courtesy of screenwriters Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove) and Christopher Isherwood. Robert Morse stars as Dennis Barlow, an Englishman abroad and a fish out of water in Southern California. Stumbling across the Hollywood landscape like a cross between Candide and Jerry Lewis. Barlow gets a unique perspective of the American experience when he finds employment at the Happier Hunting Ground, a ramshackle pet cemetery, and the flipside of the fabulously vulgar Whispering Glades. In a virtuoso dual role, Jonathan Winters costars as glad-handing Happier Hunting Grounds proprietor Harry, whose brother, Whispering Glades' Blessed Reverend, has some out-of-this-world plans for the 'Loved Ones.' The mad, mad, mad mad cast also includes John Gielgud as Dennis's ill-fated expatriate uncle, an artist unceremoniously booted from the movie studio where he has worked for 31 years; Anjanette Comer as Aimee, a Whispering Glades cosmetician torn between Dennis and embalmer Mr. Joyboy (an unforgettable Rod Steiger), who registers his broken heart on the faces of his corpses; a teenage Paul Williams as a science prodigy; Liberace as a funeral salesman peddling eternal flames both 'perpetual or standard'; Milton Berle and Margaret Leighton as 'a typical well-adjusted American couple' whose deceased dog puts a crimp in their dinner plans; and even Jamie Farr, seen fleetingly as a waiter. The Loved One anticipates the 'New Hollywood' with its naturalistic cinematography by Haskell Wexler (Medium Cool) and 'anything goes' sensibility (the dinner scene with Joyboy and his obese mother would not be out of place in a John Waters movie). By turns creepy and grotesquely funny, The Loved One will bury you. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Loved One
Black humor movie about the overblown funeral business in Southern California. Amusing but not "rolling on the floor" funny. Worth the few bucks for the cameos, by many stars of the period.
Rating:  - Very funny look at dying
This hilarious satire on the funeral business (both human and animal) features a big cast of famous Hollywood stars. Robert Morse stars as Dennis Barlow, newly-arrived in L.A. from England and living with his uncle (John Gielgud). When his uncle promptly dies, Dennis must make the final arrangements for his "loved one." This brings him to the wildly gaudy "Whispering Pines" cemetery, run by an unscrupulous Blessed Reverend (Jonathan Winters) and staffed by a beautiful cosmetician and an eccentric ... Read More
Rating: - A gem.
Based on the book by Evelyn Waugh, Tony Richardson's classic black comedy is a real gem. With a perfect cast, the comedy in the book is retained and is a great satire on the USA way of death.The Embroidered Corpse
Rating: - The Loved One
Not as cutting edge as it was 40 years ago, but worth a watch. Takes on Hollywood, funerals, the church...just to name a couple of key ones.
Rating: - Wonderful Value-Rare Movie
I am a Funeral Director and this movie is a, "black" comedy about the funeral industry. It is in black and white and was shot in the mid 60's. A cast of very famous people in it. It is considered a cult classic by people in the funeral industry. It is also pretty hard to get a hold of a good copy of it, especially on DVD.
I have purchased this same DVD several times for gifts for friends in the industry and personal friends that I think will enjoy it.
It is a very satirical ... Read More
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