About this title: The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on the Southern California funeral industry but also a lampoon of Hollywood's "British colony," those clannish, cricket-playing English actors of years gone by who bemoaned the artificiality of Tinseltown while eagerly accepting the demeaning and insignificant movie roles they were offered. The film version of The Loved One, anxious to live up to its ad-campaign promise of containing "something to offend everybody," downplays the British-colony business (save for the ...
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Warner Home Video
Date: 06/20/2006
UPC:012569678224
Description: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, Dana Andrews, Milton Berle. New. 1965 Run time: 121. Factory Sealed-Fast Shipping Happy to serve you. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
DVD region: 1
Date: 06/20/2006
UPC:012569678224
Description: New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA; Attention UK customers, please use our UK account ImportCDsUK, thank you. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Warner Home Video
Date: 06/20/2006
UPC:012569678224
Description: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, Dana Andrews, Milton Berle. New. 1965 Run time: 121. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
Studio: MGM
UPC:012569678224
Description: Robert Morse; Anjanette Comer; Jonathan Winters; Rod Steiger; Dana Andrews; James Coburn. New. Run time: 118 mins. Language: English. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
Studio: MGM
UPC:012569678224
Description: Robert Morse; Anjanette Comer; Jonathan Winters; Rod Steiger; Dana Andrews; James Coburn. New. Run time: 118 mins. Language: English. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
Studio: WARNER HOME VIDEO
UPC:012569678224
Description: BRAND NEW. The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece. 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 ... read more
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