Directed by:
Joseph LoseyScreenplay:
Harold PinterCinematography:
Douglas SlocombeComposer:
John DankworthCast:
Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, Catherine Lacey, Patrick Magee, Harold Pinter, John Dankworth, Richard Vernon, Gerry Duggan, Aileen Lewis (more)VOD (1)
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The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation’s cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust (James Fox) finds the seemingly perfect manservant (a diabolical Dirk Bogarde, during his transition from matinee idol to art-house icon) to oversee his new London town house. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social hierarchies are gradually, disturbingly destabilized. Lustrously disorienting cinematography and a masterful script by playwright Harold Pinter merge in The Servant, a tour de force of mounting psychosexual menace. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Dirk Bogarde
UK
Best movies:
The Password is Courage (1962)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Damned (1969)
James Fox
UK
Best movies:
The Remains of the Day (1993)
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Sarah Miles
UK
Best movies:
Wendy Craig
UK
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Catherine Lacey
UK
Best movies:
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The Servant (1963)
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Patrick Magee
UK
Best movies:
Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Cromwell (1970)
Harold Pinter
UK
Best movies:
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The Servant (1963)
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John Dankworth
UK
Best movies:
The Servant (1963)
Richard Vernon
UK
Best movies:
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
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Gerry Duggan
Ireland
Best movies:
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The Servant (1963)
Aileen Lewis
UK
Best movies:
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The Dirty Dozen (1967)
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Jill Melford
UK
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Ann Firbank
India
Best movies:
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Derek Tansley
UK
Best movies:
The Servant (1963)
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Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Brian Phelan
Ireland
Best movies:
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
The Servant (1963)
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Alison Seebohm
UK
Best movies:
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The Servant (1963)