SERVANT - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox, Catherine Lacey, Richard Vernon, Ann Firbank, Doris Nolan, Patrick Magee, Jill Melford, Alun Owen, Harold Pinter, Derek Tansley, Brian Phelan, Hazel Terry, Philippa Hare, Dorothy Bromiley, Alison Seebohm, Chris Williams, Gerry Duggan, John Dankworth, Harriet Devine, Davy Graham, Aileen Lewis, Colette Martin, Guy Standeven, Joanna Wake, Bruce Wells, Joseph Losey, Robin Maugham
• Director: Joseph Losey
• Runtime: 1:55
• Company: Warner-Pathé Distributors Ltd., Springbok Films Ltd., STUDIOCANAL Limited (STUDIOCANAL Ltd.), Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie