The Servant (1963)

Directed by

Joseph Losey

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

12

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 378 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gentleman hires a new manservant for his London townhouse. The servant slowly comes to dominate his master's life, twisting the household dynamics in disturbing ways.

tenseslow-burnpsychologically intenseclaustrophobicunsettlingmanipulativecoldatmospheric

What happens

The Servant is a 1963 British psychological drama film directed and produced by Joseph Losey from a screenplay by Harold Pinter, who adapted Robin Maugham's 1948 novella. It stars Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig and James Fox. The first of Pinter's three film collaborations with Losey, The Servant is a tightly constructed film about the psychological relationships among the four central characters and examines issues relating to social class. At the 24th Venice International Film Festival, the film competed for the Golden Lion. It was released in the U.K. by Warner-Pathé on November 14, 1963 to highly positive reviews. It won three BAFTA Awards including Best British Actor for Bogarde, and was nominated in five other categories including Best Film and Best British Film. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked The Servant as the 22nd-greatest British film of all time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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