The Servant
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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New program on director Joseph Losey by film critic Imogen Sara Smith
- Rare interview with Losey, conducted by critic Michel Ciment in 1976
- Interview from 1996 with screenwriter Harold Pinter
- Interviews with actors Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, and Wendy Craig
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Colm Tóibín
New cover by Sterling Hundley
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New program on director Joseph Losey by film critic Imogen Sara Smith
- Rare interview with Losey, conducted by critic Michel Ciment in 1976
- Interview from 1996 with screenwriter Harold Pinter
- Interviews with actors Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, and Wendy Craig
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Colm Tóibín
New cover by Sterling Hundley
Cast
- Dirk Bogarde
- Hugo Barrett
- James Fox
- Tony
- Sarah Miles
- Vera
- Wendy Craig
- Susan
- Richard Vernon
- Lord Mounset
- Catherine Lacey
- Lady Mounset
Credits
- Director
- Joseph Losey
- Screenplay by
- Harold Pinter
- Based on the novella by
- Robin Maugham
- Producer
- Joseph Losey
- Producer
- Norman Priggen
- Director of photography
- Douglas Slocombe
- Production design
- Richard Macdonald
- Costumes
- Beatrice Dawson
- Sound
- John Cox
- Editor
- Reginald Mills
- Music
- John Dankworth
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A scene from The Servant
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