The Undertaker and His Pals (1966) on Netflix
Mort buries the dead in town. He and his friends Spike and Doc, who run a restaurant, kill people so the kitchen can serve the remains as the daily special.
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Plot summary
Mort is the town undertaker, and Spike and Doc own a restaurant where Doc earned his nickname in medical school. The three pick a woman's name from the phonebook, ride out in motorcycle gear, break into her apartment and kill her with knives, then carry off her severed legs. The kitchen turns what they bring back into its daily special, each dish named as a pun on the victim's last name. Mort buries whatever is left and bills the families. Private detective Harry Glass works with his secretary and girlfriend, Ann Poultry. When Mort brings Harry a funeral contract at exorbitant rates, Harry writes the lower price on it before signing.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
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- Some of the gore in The Undertaker and His Pals was real: scenes were built around inserted footage of actual medical surgery.
- Ted V. Mikels acquired the film for a triple bill with the Italian horror movie The Embalmer and his own The Corpse Grinders, and cut out most of the gore plus a sequence with Ray Dannis in drag as an old lady. His cut ran a little over an hour, against roughly 80 minutes reported elsewhere.
- Police in Louisville, Kentucky confiscated a print of The Undertaker and His Pals under a local law banning materials dealing with bloodshed, lust or crime. The print was returned only after the Louisville Quarterly Court declared that statute unconstitutional.
- In Clarksville, Indiana, a local Parents-Teachers Association and several women's groups complained about the film, and the theater canceled its showings.
