The Loved One
Summary:
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 insignifica... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Robert Morse - (Dennis Barlow)
Anjanette Comer - (Aimee Thanatogenos)
Jonathan Winters - (Harry Glenworthy)
Rod Steiger - (Mr. Joyboy)
Dana Andrews - (Gen. Brinkson)
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Review:
Evelyn Waugh purists may bristle at the liberties taken in translated his macabre and morbidly amusing novel to the screen (sending corpses into space, indeed!), but if The Loved One varies from the novel in both plot and tone, it still shares the same blackly comic view of humanity. While Waugh was subdued and subtle in his depiction of t... Continue >>
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