The Loved One (BD)

The Loved One (BD)The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and directed with inspired verve by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). 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

a mysterious outsider (Robert Culp) who says he knew the innocent woman tails the two men

Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow (Jeremy Irons) try to murder his wife

uncovers the reason for said engagement (parental embezzlement) and sets out to unravel all of her unsavory fianc�'s (Edmund Breon) plans

gleeful shocker that launched the fright-filled film series

Directed by noted TV producer Jerry Thorpe (Harry O

Becoming attracted to the criminal life she emulates

Said The New York Times in a review of the film: "She is the most miraculous blend of personality and sheer dramatic talent the screen has ever known

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and how the constants of love

But Ahmed has underestimated Marco's ingenious wit and considerable charm - he's a rogue who can talk

Dean heads straight for Sam