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The Loved One ( The Loved 1 ) [ NON-USA FORMAT PAL Reg.0 Import - Spain ]
Product information for The Loved One ( The Loved 1 ) [ NON-USA FORMAT PAL Reg.0 Import - Spain ]
Spain released PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ) Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ) Spanish ( Subtitles ) SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White Interactive Menu Scene Access SYNOPSIS: The film version of The Loved One anxious to live up to its ad-campaign promise of containing something to offend everybody downplays the British-colony business (save for the presence of the magnificent Robert Morley) and pumps up the death gags. Innocent British poet Dennis Barlow (Robert Morse) falls in love with funeral-home cosmetician Aimee Thanatogenos (Anjanette Comer) who in turn is loved by prissy funeral director Mr. Joyboy (Rod Steiger). The latter lives with his obese mother (Ayllene Gibbons) whose eating sequence is far more hilarious (and more tasteless) than many of the film s calculatedly black jokes. A huge guest-star cast is headed by Jonathan Winters in a dual role as a funeral home manager and his covetous twin brother who operates an elaborate pet cemetery. Musician Paul Williams is also on hand as a 13-year-old aeronautics genius who develops a method of sending corpses into eternal orbit (a plot device that Waugh neglected to include in his novel). Film historian William K. Everson has commented that The Loved One is one of the best and most underrated comedies of the 1960s. For others especially those who might feel guilty chuckling at the sight of Anjanette Comer committing suicide with an embalming needle it s purely a matter of taste...or lack of same. ...The Loved One ( The Loved 1 )
