The Loved One

The Loved One (1965)

The motion picture with something to offend everyone!

The suicide of his expatriate uncle draws Englishman and poet Dennis Barlow into California's booming funeral industry.

Date of release
1965-10-11
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (47)
Runtime
2h 2m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Tony Richardson

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Loved One
  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

The Loved One is a 1965 black-and-white black comedy film directed by British filmmaker Tony Richardson. A satirical look at the funeral business in Los Angeles, it is based on Evelyn Waugh's 1948 short novel The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, though the screenplay by noted American satirical novelist Terry Southern and British author Christopher Isherwood also incorporates elements from Jessica Mitford's 1963 nonfiction book The American Way of Death.

Trivia

The Fish Shanty restaurant was used as the entrance to a British club in the film.

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