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Overview

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Director:
Tony Richardson
Writers:
Evelyn Waugh (novel)
Terry Southern (writer) ...
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Release Date:
11 October 1965 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
The motion picture with something to offend everyone!
Plot:
Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Robert Morse ... Dennis Barlow

Jonathan Winters ... Henry Glenworthy / Rev. Wilbur Glenworthy
Anjanette Comer ... Aimee Thanatogenous

Dana Andrews ... Gen. Buck Brinkman

Milton Berle ... Mr. Kenton

James Coburn ... Immigration Officer

John Gielgud ... Sir Francis Hinsley
Tab Hunter ... Whispering Glades Tour Guide
Margaret Leighton ... Mrs. Helen Kenton
Liberace ... Mr. Starker

Roddy McDowall ... D.J. Jr.
Robert Morley ... Sir Ambrose Ambercrombie
Barbara Nichols ... Sadie Blodgett
Lionel Stander ... The Guru Brahmin
Roxanne Arlen ... Whispering Glades Hostess
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Additional Details

Runtime:
122 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)

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Trivia:
American actor Robert Morse had such trouble keeping up his British accent that eventually all of his dialogue had to be recorded in a studio and dubbed over the film. more
Quotes:
Henry Glenworthy: Listen, I've got to make a little trip over to Beverly Hills... to see a man about a dog. more
Movie Connections:
References "The Outer Limits: The Sixth Finger (#1.5)" (1963) more
Soundtrack:
Pomp and Circumstance more

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44 out of 50 people found the following comment useful:-
The View from 1965, 1 July 2003
10/10
Author: B24 from Arizona

Several of you youngsters have added comments here to the effect you wanted to know how this film was received in 1965. Here is the lowdown.

It was skewered by the few uptight critics who got it, and passed off as sheer nonsense by the ones who didn't. It had a big, big promotional sendoff on television and in the newspapers, featuring its over-the-top ending that is commented on elsewhere in these archives. That, in fact, is the single characteristic placing this film in the history books as one of the first real anti-war, anti-establishment, anti-bourgeois relics of popular culture just at the cusp of an entirely new epoch.

I am still dumbfounded that it went generally over the heads of most people in 1965. (Well, at least I am bemused by it.) "Dr. Strangelove" received much the same treatment. It was as if the country was still on overdrive after the assassination of President Kennedy, numb and oblivious as to what was about to happen. Only the very young, influenced as they were by the Beatles and other revolutionary pop music icons, seemed to have a clue. But they were powerless within the political vacuum that led up to the war in Vietnam, and by the time all the turmoil of 1968 came along, this movie had been long forgotten.

This is one fan, however, who still regards this wonderful satire as one of the top ten of the 20th century, right up there with the best of Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, and Saturday Night Live (in its better days, of course).

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