The Loved One
1965, NR, 116 min.
Directed by Tony Richardson, Starring Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger, Dana Andrews, Milton Berle, James Coburn, Robert Morley, Roddy McDowall.
This mordantly funny satire of both the funeral-home business and the British invasion of Hollywood was scripted by Terry Southern, based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh (with a first-draft screenplay by Christopher Isherwood).
This article appears in June 6 • 2008.
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