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    Loved One, The (1965)

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    Arriving in California to visit his distant uncle Sir Francis Hinsley (John Gielgud), young English poet Dennis Barlow (Robert Morse) takes a job at the Happier Hunting Ground, a pet cemetery.

    When his uncle commits suicide, Dennis finds himself drawn into the bizarre world of mortuaries and morticians.

    An outrageous, scathing black comedy about the business of death and life in Southern California, this hip adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 novel is sick humour at its best.

    Rod Steiger is shudderingly awful as the mortician Mr Joyboy (pictured above), but spot-on cameos from James Coburn, Liberace and Lionel Stander just about compensate.

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    Dennis Barlow
    Robert Morse
    Wilbur Glenworthy/Harry Glenworthy
    Jonathan Winters
    Mr Joyboy
    Rod Steiger
    Aimee Thanatogenos
    Anjanette Comer
    General Brinkman
    Dana Andrews
    Mr Kenton
    Milton Berle
    Sir Francis Hinsley
    John Gielgud
    Immigration Officer
    James Coburn
    DJ Jnr
    Roddy McDowall
    Guide
    Tab Hunter
    Mr Starker
    Liberace
    Sir Ambrose Abercrombie
    Robert Morley
    Mrs Kenton
    Margaret Leighton
    Sadie Blodgett
    Barbara Nichols
    Guru Brahmin/Hump
    Lionel Stander
    Joyboy’s mother
    Ayllene Gibbons
    DJ Jnr’s secretary
    Asa Maynor
    Gunther Fry
    Paul H. Williams
    Lorenzo Medici
    Martin Ransohoff
    Mr Bogaloff
    John Bleifer
    Mrs Bogaloff
    Bella Bruck

    Director
    Tony Richardson

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