The Loved One (Blu-ray)
Robert Morse stars in this comedy about the wacky Hollywood funeral business.
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 9, 2017
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer & Rod Steiger | |
| Performer: | Dana Andrews, Milton Berle, James Coburn, John Gielgud, Tab Hunter, Margaret Leighton, Liberace, Roddy McDowall, Robert Morley, Barbara Nichols, Lionel Stander, Robert Easton & Paul Williams | |
| Directed by | Tony Richardson | |
| Edited by | Hal Ashby & Brian Smedley-Aston | |
| Screenplay by | Terry Southern & Christopher Isherwood | |
| Composition by | John Addison | |
| Art Direction by | Sydney Litwack | |
| Produced by | John Calley & Haskell Wexler | |
| Director of Photography: | Haskell Wexler |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 5/10 --
...it tries to cover too much ground with too much material that is simply too obvious and too unfunny.
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Movie Metropolis
Perhaps the only way to enjoy it is to accept that saying something offensive is better than saying nothing at all. The Evelyn Waugh who wrote The Loved One might have agreed with that, at any rate.
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Blogcritics.org
Rating: 1/5 --
its humors are unorganized and it can easily seem desperate and dumb
DVDLaser
Rating: 4.5/5 --
sarcastic and in deliciously poor taste, and terribly funny
Filmcritic.com
The corpse's laughter, the mortician's art
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CinePassion
Rating: 3/5 --
A wonderfully, witty satire, with Steiger's performance a riot.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
It is hard to understand how a witty, tightly organized extravaganza like the Waugh novel... could have resulted in such a queasy, humorless, formless botch.
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Esquire Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 40,238
- UPC: 888574489182
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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