![]() ![]() It does suffer a bit from some of the trappings of an "older" film, but for those who appreciate film and literary history.you're in for a treat. There are also cameo's galore throuhout the film. ![]() A young Robert Morse (of Mad Men fame) is superb as the lovable, but bumbling Englishman trying to make sense of it all. This was my first time seeing Jonathan Winters in a (mostly) serious role and he was quite good. ![]() ![]() Written as only Evelyn Waugh can write, we are forced to step back and really take a look at the absurdities of certain people, places and social interactions. Contents 1 Quotes 1. He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century. Thanks goodness he did as the results are hilarious. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (19521961). I find the idea ammusing that the whole concept for the novel on which this film is based, sprung from Waugh's brief experience in Los Angeles while trying to get a film version of Brideshead Revisited put together, Legend has it that he was so taken aback by his experience with the film indurtry and of attending just ONE Hollywood style funeral (with all of it's trappings) that he had to write about it. Evelyn Waugh's clever and at times scathing look at both the film and funeral industries. Waugh, with the artist’s privilege of concentrating his attention on one part of a complicated whole and ignoring the rest, has blasted the Whispering Glades mentality with the lightning of his. ![]()
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