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The Servant (1963) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 18, 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 52 minutes
Country UK
Studio Elstree, Landau Films, Springbok
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Other Titles
• The Servant
• Der Diener (1964)
• Il Servo (1963)
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Genre: Drama, Psychodrama, Suspense, Gay/Lesbian, Drugs, Role-switching
Plot: In THE SERVANT, Joseph Losey’s 10th film made in the U.K. after his 1951 blacklisting in the U.S., the powerful undercurrents of class struggle and sexual repression erupt through the very British patina of civility to expose the poisoned undercurrents of a class-based society. Dirk Bogarde plays Barrett, a seductive and insidious manservant hired by flamboyant playboy Tony (James Fox, in his film debut) to take control of his newly established household. When asked what he wants in a manservant, Tony responds, "Well...everything." And that’s just what Barrett takes. As his awe-inspiring efficiency gives way to a suspicious and overarching control, Tony’s fiancée, Susan (Wendy Craig), begins to nurture a severe dislike of the omnipresent Barrett. When Barrett brings his girlfriend on as the maid--telling Tony that she is his sister--the inevitable disaster that results sees Barrett (and girlfriend) expelled from the household and Tony left by his fiancée. Alone and left to his own rather debauched devices in his spectacularly appointed bachelor pad, Tony eventually rehires Barrett and the role reversal becomes complete as the two reestablish the household--however, now with Barrett seemingly at its head. Losey’s pessimistic obsession with character and English class system is
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| Harold Pinter
The Last Tycoon, The Comfort of Strangers, The Go-Between |
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| Cast |
Dirk Bogarde
A Bridge Too Far, Death in Venice, The Night Porter |
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 | James Fox
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Patriot Games, The Remains of the Day |
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The Lady Vanishes, I Know Where I'm Going!, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Richard Vernon
Goldfinger, A Hard Day's Night, The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Anne Firbank
Anna and the King, A Passage to India, The Scarlet Pimpernel | |
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John Dankworth
Gangster No. 1, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Darling |
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