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Let's discuss the 1963 new British wave film The Servant. After a well-to-do young gentleman hires the "perfect servant," he slowly starts to realize the servant's uncomfortable true intentions and motivations.
Produced and Directed by Joseph Losey
Written by Harold Pinter
Music by John Dankworth
Starring Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, Richard Vernon, Catherine Lacey, and JAMES FOX
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 31, 2024 12:10 AM |
Dirk Bogarde and James Fox give two of the best film performances of all time.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 29, 2024 11:21 PM |
Looks delish!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 29, 2024 11:26 PM |
OP I thought of this film while watching Saltburn. Saltburn is enjoyable but The Servant is a near masterpiece.
Glaciers might be melting the polar caps might be crumbling but not even the passage of half a century has taken the frozen edge off this brilliantly icy film -Kenneth Turan LOS ANGELES TIMES
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 29, 2024 11:42 PM |
It IS The Servant!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 30, 2024 12:18 AM |
It has the same nervous English chick as The Nanny.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 30, 2024 12:32 AM |
Stunning, brilliant film. with astounding performances, especially James Fox. Who knew he's sire Laurence, but hey
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 30, 2024 12:37 AM |
Excellent film! But...
It needs to be remade to feature the homosexual tension/relationship between the characters Barrett and Tony as Maugham intended.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 30, 2024 2:36 AM |
About a decade after The Servant, for 1972's Demons of the Mind, Dirk Bogarde was shortlisted for Baron Zorn, and Robert Hardy replaced Eric Porter who withdrew from the film Hands of the Ripper (1971), which was made simultaneously.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 30, 2024 3:24 AM |
Wendy Craig is very good in very different roles in The Servant and The Nanny (1965) @0:48
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 30, 2024 5:02 AM |
What a sexy man he was
Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 30, 2024 1:37 PM |
R7 isn't there homosexual tension already?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 30, 2024 4:15 PM |
I loved Dirk Bogarde’s dedication to grotesque roles. Though I am pretty sure he would have hated me in real life. His persona reminds me of a non-vegetarian Morrissey.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 31, 2024 12:05 AM |
R12 He was a bit of snob.
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