Everyone should see this movie. It's a brilliant satire about organized religion and the funeral industry. How these mega-churches are selling salvation for profit. It's fiction and it was made in 1965...which makes it a;; the better. From what Robert Osborne (TCM) described it, it had a poor reception and suffered terrible reviews. I can only imagine how this was accepted by the mainstream movie goer in '65.
I won't get into the plot, but it's about a British poet who comes to America to stay with his uncle and experience Los Angeles. After a series of events he ends up working at a pet cemetery, which is secretly affiliated to the giant mega-church/funeral home "Whispering Glades". The head preacher and the screw up brother are played by the same actor and show the parallels between the two places.
It was based off a short novel, which I'm sure I'll need to pick up next.
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