The Loved One The Loved One

The motion picture with something to offend everyone.

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.

Robert Morse Anjanette Comer Rod Steiger Dana Andrews Milton Berle James Coburn John Gielgud Alan Napier Robert Easton Tab Hunter Margaret Leighton Roddy McDowall Robert Morley Barbara Nichols Lionel Stander Bernie Kopell Paul Williams Chick Hearn Jonathan Winters Ayllene Gibbons

comedy

122 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • VChile

    Review by VChile ★★★

    Amusing black comedy/satire, but not the laugh riot you'd expect from the people involved.

  • Saul Rosenbear

    Review by Saul Rosenbear ★★★★½

    Currently #2 on my personal WTF satires list.

  • Alan_Dorich

    Review by Alan_Dorich ★★★★½

    One of the darkest comedies I've ever seen. It's a wonder it got made when it did, with characters that are cynical jerks or incredibly damaged people, and an ending that doesn't back down. With Jonathan Winters at his scariest, a gloriously wacky Rod Steiger and Liberace as an especially knowledgeable coffin salesman.

  • gworden

    Review by gworden ★★★

    A black comedy of the type that brought us Dr Strangelove the previous year, this 1965 film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's book doesn't quite rise to the level of the Kubrick classic. Like me, you may have never heard of it. But a film by Tony Richardson with a British and American cast including Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters (two roles!), Robert Morley, James Coburn, John Gielgud, Roddy McDowell, Paul Williams, Rod Steiger and *Liberace*! Well, that at least deserves one look. It is an odd film and not to everybody's tastes. For example, the movie's tagline was "something to offend everybody". Watch for a fleeting cameo by Jamie Farr. I suspect the folks who brought us the movie Mash in 1970 had seen this film.

  • Nat Almirall

    Review by Nat Almirall ★★★

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. Decent adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novelette. And by "decent" I mean "lacking in all the humor and creativity that Richardson brought to Tom Jones!" But Jonathan Winters is worth watching for anything, anywhere. If anything, the world needs a first-rate adaptation of Waugh's best and most hilarious book, Scoop.