Loved One, The

USA 1965, Black & white
Dir. Tony Richardson
Genres: Classics, Comedy / Black Comedy

Feat. Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Robert Morley, Roddy McDowall, James Coburn, Milton Berle, Dana Andrews

Aroview: Satirical take on the funeral business in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.

Doing for funerals what that DR STRANGELOVE did for the Cold War, it was adapted by its writer, Terry Southern, who also penned 60's counter-culture classics like Barbarella, Candy, Easy Rider and The Magic Christian. Brit author Christopher Isherwood also had a hand in adapting the short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh.

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