There's also ONLY THE LONELY (Dir: Chris Columbus 1994), where Ally Sheedy plays a mortician/mortician's daughter. The situation is played fairly straight, as far as I remember, including John Candy playing a cop who woos the Sheedy character. Peter Warren ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherra Schick" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 9:09 PM Subject: Re: Reply: Morticians in the Media > > Most of these examples, of course, tend to laugh in the face of death. > > I don't know if anyone has ever tackled the notion of a > > mortician/funeral director as a main character. > > > > What about Dan Aykroyd's character in MY GIRL? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donald Larsson" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 11:16 AM > Subject: Re: Reply: Morticians in the Media > > > > I rather wonder what the "first" (or least earliest that we know of) > > mortician in cinema would have been? (I don't really recall one as a > > "character" but the funeral in ENTR'ACTE is fairly early.) > > > > Some others that come to mind: > > The doctor who doubles as mortician in Dreyer's VAMPYR > > OLIVER! and other film versions of OLIVER TWIST and some other Dickens > > adapations (eg., A CHRISTMAS CAROL, although I doubt that Jeremy > > Cruncher, the grave-robbing "resurrection man" of TALE OF TWO CITIES > > counts) > > David Warner's Western undertaker in Peckinpaugh's THE BALLAD OF CABLE > > HOGUE > > The speakeasy front funeral parlor in SOME LIKE IT HOT > > The one-armed "funeral director" who stages a fake funeral for a spy in > > Hitchcock's SECRET AGENT > > Of course, the satirical treatment of the death industry in THE LOVED > > ONE > > > > > > Most of these examples, of course, tend to laugh in the face of death. > > I don't know if anyone has ever tackled the notion of a > > mortician/funeral director as a main character. > > > > > > Don Larsson > > > > > > > > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:01:54 -0400 PLatham <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Closely similar to film morticians, in spirit anyway, are the various > > > doctors and gravediggers in THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) and the family > members > > > and minister who terrorize the child in 3 FACES OF EVE. I think also > that > > > some appeared in a Roger Corman version of one of Poe's stories (THE > STRANGE > > > CASE OF M. VALDEMAR?) > > > > > > Peter Latham > > > > > > ---- > > > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > > > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Donald F. Larsson > > English Department, AH 230 > > Minnesota State University > > Mankato, MN 56001 > > > > ---- > > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > > > > > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html