The Loved One (MOD)

The Loved One (MOD)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

Or Jennifer

Twenty-one-year-old Russ Tamblyn portrays Tully

She's a sleuth to reckon with

whose prospective husband (Guy Madison)

And as if that isn't risky enough

he's under the power of a gangland kingpin who runs the prison like his private fiefdom while the weak-willed warden looks the other way

she finds a young man has moved into her home--claiming to be the brother she believed had died in an automobile accident in South Africa

golden-haired guests who are unaware they'll soon be checking out

Filmed with a naughty wink-wink during the Swinging Sixties

cramped apartment in a Brooklyn slum

portrays one of the army buddies

When in Rome