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Budget. £138,005 [1][2][3] Box office. £389,276 [4] The Servant is a 1963 British drama film directed by Joseph Losey. It was written by Harold Pinter, who adapted Robin Maugham 's 1948 novella. The Servant stars Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig and James Fox. The first of Pinter's four film collaborations with Losey, The Servant is a ...
Apr 26, 2020 · The subject of The Servant (1963) is the English class system and its tensions in swinging sixties London. The battleground for this class struggle is mainly confined to a single location, a house owned by Tony (James Fox), an eligible bachelor and upper-class naïf who fancies himself a businessman. Into this abode enters the enigmatic Barrett ...
- Martyn Bamber
The Servant: Directed by Joseph Losey. With Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox. Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.
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Jun 30, 2017 · Made in Chelsea in 1963, the unsettling Dirk Bogarde drama The Servant is often considered one of the greatest of all London movies. More than half a century later, how have its locations changed?
Jun 14, 2023 · “The Servant” is a noir, a horror film, an “Upstairs/Downstairs” satire, a thriller about power, a romantic comedy for a long middle stretch, a pair of terse love triangles, a survival melodrama at the end when at its most Brechtian. It’s a frightening and funny film, a low story told in high style.
A spoilt, rich young man employs a manservant who gradually takes over the household and, with the aid of his 'sister', corrupts him. Adapted from a short story by Robin Maugham, The Servant (1963) was the first of three collaborations between Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter.
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The Servant (1963) A young aristocrat hires a manservant to tend to his needs but finds the balance of power shifting, in a claustrophobic thriller that probes British class culture.
