name | The Loved One |
---|---|
director | Tony Richardson |
producer | John CalleyHaskell Wexler |
writer | Evelyn Waugh (novel)Terry SouthernChristopher Isherwood |
starring | Robert MorseAnjanette ComerRod SteigerJohn GielgudLiberace |
music | John Addison |
cinematography | Haskell Wexler |
editing | Hal AshbyBrian Smedley-AstonAntony Gibbs (supervising) |
distributor | Warner Bros. |
release | October 11, |
runtime | 122 minutes |
country | |
language | English |
gross | }} |
To raise money, Dennis begins working at Happier Hunting Grounds, a local pet cemetery run by the reverend's brother Henry Glenworthy (also played by Winters), who has lately been fired by the studio as well. Dennis courts Aimee with poetry, which fascinates her though she fails to recognize famous verses. When Aimee asks whether Dennis wrote these passages he changes the subject. Dennis dares not let Aimee find out where he works since she regards the pet cemetery to be sacrilegious. Aimee is increasingly frustrated by Dennis' cynical and disrespectful attitude toward Whispering Glades and is shocked at his suggestion that they marry and live on her income when she gets a promotion. So, acting on advice given by Guru Brahmin (Lionel Stander), actually a drunken staff writer at a newspaper, she accepts a dinner invitation from Mr. Joyboy who secured her promotion. Thoughts of a serious relationship with Mr. Joyboy are dismissed when she sees his bizarre and unhealthy relationship with his morbidly obese mother whose only interest is food. Again acting on the advice of Guru Brahmin, she becomes engaged to Dennis. She invites him to her home, a partially finished house build on a cliff, condemned and abandoned due to the danger of landslides. He cuts the visit short, alarmed at occasional ominous trembling and Aimee's lack of concern over her own safety.
Meanwhile, Dennis and Henry Glenworthy meet their neighbor, a boy genius (Paul Williams) with an interest in rocketry and they let him set up a lab at the pet cemetery. Mr. Joyboy, brings in his pet myna bird to be buried and discovers the identity of his rival. He agrees to have the bird by shot into orbit by one of the neighbor's rockets instead of being buried. Mr. Joyboy brings Aimee to the ceremony and she is outraged when she sees Dennis performing the service, this greatly pleases Mr. Joyboy.
Reverend Glenworthy, seeing little profit in the cemetery once the plots have been filled, decides to convert it to a retirement home, but is unable to proceed without a plan for dealing with the bodies interred there. When he learns of his brother's idea of sending bodies into orbit he recognizes it as a solution to his own problem. He proceeds to obtain surplus rockets by hosting an orgy at Whispering Glades with top Air Force brass as guests of honor. Dennis, in a desperate attempt to reconcile with Aimee, tells her that Whispering Glades is to be shut down. She flees but is afraid that what Dennis told her might be true.
She first seeks Mr. Joyboy for comfort, but he has been called to the cemetery to prepare the body to be launched in orbit, an ex-astronaut nicknamed "The Condor". She then tracks down Guru Brahmin in a bar, but he drunkenly advises her to jump out a window. Finally, she flees to cemetery and find Reverend Glenworthy, who confirms Dennis' story and tries to seduce her with promises of continued employment with higher pay at the new facility. Wholly distraught since her faith in everything she held sacred has been shattered, she attaches herself to an embalming machine and dies peacefully.
Mr. Joyboy finds her body but is afraid to report it because of the scandal it would cause, so he calls Dennis to dispose of her in the pet cemetery's crematorium. Dennis agrees but only if Mr. Joyboy gives him a first class ticket back to England and all the cash he can lay his hands on. Dennis also imposes the condition that Aimee be placed in the casket headed for space and The Condor be sent to the pet crematorium. After the televised funeral ceremony and launch, Dennis is seen boarding the first class section of a plane to England.
Category:1965 films Category:Black comedy films Category:Films based on novels Category:Films directed by Tony Richardson Category:Films shot in Los Angeles, California
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