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The Servant (1963)

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(76%)

Starring:	Dirk Bogarde \| Harold Pinter \| Sarah Miles \| Sylvia Sims \| James Fox \| Michael York \| Jack Warner \| Wendy Craig \| Vivien Merchant \| Patrick Magee \| Bernard Lee \| Dennis Price \| Jacqueline Sassard \| Stanley Baker \| Tom Courtenay \| Leo McKern
Director:	Joseph Losey, Basil Dearden
Studio:	OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time:	110 mins
Genres:	Drama
Languages:	English
Released:	February 25, 2002

In THE SERVANT, Joseph Losey's 10th film made in the U.K. after his 1951 blacklisting in the U.S., the powerful undercurrents of class struggle and sexual repression erupt through the very British patina of civility to expose the poisoned undercurrents of a class-based society.

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Rated 5 stars
Disturbingly eloquent.

A Customer from HAYLE UK, 30th April, 2009

The Servant is one of those rare films that upsets, challenges and entertains. James Fox playing the role of the spoiled, beautiful and rich young man,Tony, meets his match in the somewhat sinister servant, Hugo, superbly acted by Dirk Bogarde. Tony has a girlfriend, Susan. Wendy Craig performs this role with great sensitivity. Her part serves to emphasize the tensions as they mount up during the film. Each man deserves the other. The ensuing chaos is simultaneously tragic and comic. One is left to draw one's own conclusions regarding the sexual innuendos that subtily characterize the relationship between the two men. I give this film five stars because from start to finish its a great work of cinema art.

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