Imperious, fatuous Sir Ambrose Ambercrombie (Robert Morley), the unofficial head of the expatriate Brits in Hollywood, bullies Dennis to sell Sir Francis’ Beverly Hills bungalow to pay for an expensive funeral at the celebrated Whispering Glades cemetery complex, in order to mitigate the perceived scandal. Sir Francis is gracious to his unexpected house guest, but when he’s unceremoniously fired from the studio, Sir Francis hangs himself over his empty, decrepit swimming pool. (Roddy McDowall), is to transform cowboy movie star Dusty Acres (Robert Easton) into an English secret agent (“We give him the one thing Jim Bond don’t have…human warmth. Sir Francis’ latest assignment, courtesy of nervous, hustling producer Henry Glenworthy (Jonathan Winters) and cold, devious studio production head D.J., Jr. Would-be British poet Dennis Barlow (Robert Morse), having won a free airline ticket (to either Los Angeles or Calcutta), decides on the spur of the moment to visit his distant uncle, Sir Francis Hinsley (John Gielgud), who has worked as a production designer for 31 years at Megalopolitan Pictures in Hollywood. I’m for anything that deeply offends anyone today because everyone is getting just a little bit ridiculous with the Stalinistic shut-downs on free speech and humor and political commentary and living your f****** life, capisce? So it’s small beans, then, if The Loved One doesn’t have a remotely cohesive statement to make. In today’s desperately constipated times, The Loved One works quite well as a string of sick jokes about life’s three greatest pleasures: sex, food, and death. However, that obvious come-on didn’t fool anyone: box office returns were anemic.
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Based on Evelyn Waugh’s slim novelette, written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood, directed by Tony Richardson, and starring Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, Dana Andrews, Milton Berle, James Coburn, John Gielgud, Tab Hunter, Margaret Leighton, Liberace, Roddy McDowall, Robert Morley, Barbara Nichols, Paul Williams, and Lionel Stander (“Incrapitible!”), The Loved One was notoriously advertised as “the motion picture with something to offend everyone!” What better way to celebrate the most macabre month of the year than to watch a grotesque comedy about Hollywood and the funeral business (guess which one is worse…)?Ī few years back, Warner Bros.’ Archive Collection released a razor-sharp Blu-ray of Filmways’ 1965 cult classic black comedy, The Loved One.
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