The Servant

feature film, 1963

DIRECTED BY: Joseph Losey

The Servant

CAST:
Dirk Bogarde (Hugo Barrett),
Sarah Miles (Vera),
Wendy Craig (Susan),
James Fox (Tony),
Catherine Lacey (Lady Mounset)

SCRIPT:
Harold Pinter (prema romanu Robina Maughama)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Douglas Slocombe

Synopsis:
This film explores the twisted power games between a servant (Dirk Bogarde) and his master (James Fox). Tony is a rich young man who employs Hugo as a butler. Hugo immediately starts playing control games with Tony, testing his boundaries and getting Tony under his thumb. The only threat to Hugo’s dominance is Tony’s fiancée Susan, but she too gets entangled in the butler’s schemes.

b/w, 35 mm, 110 min