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Wealthy wastrel James Fox hires insouciant cockney Dirk Bogarde as a valet. No sooner has he donned his working clothes than Bogarde begins exercising a subtle but insidious control over his master.

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ProducerJoseph Losey, Norman Priggen

EAN5055201823199

eBay Product ID (ePID)168161815

Product Key Features

ActorRichard Vernon, Wendy Craig, Dirk Bogarde, Catherine Lacey, James Fox, Sarah Miles

Film/TV TitleThe Servant

DirectorJoseph Losey

LanguageEnglish

Run Time111 Mins

Release Year2013

FormatBlu-ray

Features50th Anniversary Edition\James Fox interviewed by Richard Ayoade\Interview with Wendy Craig\Interview with Sarah Miles\Audio interview with Douglas Slocombe (Director of photography)\Harold Pinter Tempo interview\Joseph Losey talks about The Servant\Stills gallery railer

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

ComposerJohnny Dankworth

Production DesignerRichard MacDonald

Additional InformationWealthy wastrel James Fox hires insouciant cockney Dirk Bogarde as a valet. No sooner has he donned his working clothes than Bogarde begins exercising a subtle but insidious control over his master. Suggesting that the house could use a little fixing up, Bogarde convinces Fox to spend a whopping amount of money on it. But this is just a warm-up session for Bogarde, who by mid-film is calling all the shots in the Fox household, all the while pretending to keep his place. Fox's fiance Wendy Craig sees through Bogarde's game. Bogarde then brings his own lady friend Sarah Miles into the house. At Bogarde's insistence, Miles seduces Fox, thereby loosening Craig's hold on the confused young man. And so it goes. The homosexual subtext of THE SERVANT disturbed some of the more hidebound critics of 1963; Harold Pinter based his cryptic screenplay on a novel by Robin Maugham.

ScreenwriterHarold Pinter

AuthorRobin Maugham

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorReginald Mills

Movie/TV TitleThe Servant

Director of PhotographyDouglas Slocombe

Consumer AdviceContains mild sexuality and language