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Movie
The Servant
Synopsis
Drama about a wealthy young member of the Chelsea set takes on a manservant whose obliging efficiency masks sinister plans, Wealthy wastrel James Fox hires insouciant cockney Dirk Bogarde as a valet. No sooner has he donned his working clothes than Bogarde begins exercising a subtle but insidious control over his master. Suggesting that the house could use a little fixing up, Bogarde convinces Fox to spend a whopping amount of money on it. But this is just a warm-up session for Bogarde, who by mid-film is calling all the shots in the Fox household, all the while pretending to keep his place. Fox's fiance Wendy Craig sees through Bogarde's game. Bogarde then brings his own lady friend Sarah Miles into the house. At Bogarde's insistence, Miles seduces Fox, thereby loosening Craig's hold on the confused young man. And so it goes. The homosexual subtext of The Servant disturbed some of the more hidebound critics of 1963; Harold Pinter based his cryptic screenplay on a novel by Robin Maugham.
Cast
- James Fox
- Dirk Bogarde
- Sarah Miles
- Wendy Craig
- Catherine Lacey
- Richard Vernon
- Ann Firbank
- Doris Knox
- Patrick Magee
- Jill Melford
- Alun Owen
- Harold Pinter
- Derek Tansley
- Brian Phelan
- Hazel Terry
- Philippa Hare
- Dorothy Bromiley
- Colette Martin
- Joanna Wake
- Harriet Devine
- Alison Seebohm
- Johnny Dankworth
- Chris Williams
- Gerry Duggan
- John Dankworth
- Davy Graham
- Bruce Wells
- Doris Nolan
- Reginald Mills
- Ted Clements
- Buster Ambler
- John Dankworth
- Bob Lawrence
- Richard MacDonald
- Douglas Slocombe
- Gerry Hambling
- Beatrice Dawson
- Harold Pinter
- Norman Priggen
- Joseph Losey