The Undertaker and His Pals

From the archive

Mort the Mortician, and his two friends Spike and Doc (who run the aptly named “Greasy Spoon Diner”), collaborate on an interesting business model. The owners kill and dismember people – with body parts ending up on the following day’s menu – and Mort provides $144.98 funerals to the survivors. Of course, Mort’s add-ons drive the price up a good bit…but he also gives trading stamps to cushion the financial blow. Things turn for the worse after the entrepreneurs serve pieces of the late Anne Poultry (as “breast of chicken,” of course)., as well as of a young woman named Friday. Ms. Poultry was the secretary/girlfriend of Detective Harry Glass, and he soon realizes something’s amiss when he’s hired to locate the missing Friday by her identical twin sister Thursday. “The Undertaker and His Pals” is available from Desert Island Films, which offers “the oldest, largestand highest quality public domain film library in the world” to clients such as A&E, Warner Brothers, Time-Life and Viacom; as well as from The RetroFilm Vault, “the original and definitive one-stop source for public domain movies and television for broadcast programing or stock footage use. From the heart of movie land, The RetroFilm Vault has the largest virtual catalog for broadcast quality public domain films on the planet.”