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    When Barrett brings his sister Vera to work and live in the house, Tony has a brief hidden affair with her. After traveling with Susan and spending a couple of days in a friend's house outside London, the couple unexpectedly returns and finds Barrett and Vera, who are actually lovers, in Tony's room. They are fired and Susan breaks with Tony. Later, Tony meets Barrett alone in a pub and hires him back, and Barrett imposes his real dark intentions in the house, turning the table and switching position with his master.

    Though I would not consider it as being flawless, it is a very interesting and indeed memorable piece of British cinema. The characters itself could have been taken from P. Wodehouse's hilarious series of comic novels about the perfect butler Jeeves and his 'master' 'Bertie' Wooster, a young, superficial, and careless dandy who could not make one step without Jeeves constantly caring for him.

    In "The Servant", a similar relationship is twisted in a much darker way: Hugo Barrett is not at all the faithful servant devoted to his master - though he appears to be at the beginning -, but a scheming, quite evil person who knows very well what he wants. Though the real motives of his deeds do not become completely clear in the story - but this makes him probably even scarier.

    Dirk Bogarde was just wonderful. Richard Vernon as Lord Mounset. Ann Firbank as Society Woman. Doris Knox as Older Woman.

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    Patrick Magee as Bishop. Jill Melford as Younger Woman. Alun Owen as Curate. Harold Pinter as Society Man. Derek Tansley as Head Waiter. Brian Phelan as Irishman in Pub. Hazel Terry as Woman in Big Hat. Philippa Hare as Girl in Bedroom. Colette Martin as Her Friend.

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    The Servant is Harold Pinter's film adaptation of a novelette by Robin Maugham. A British production directed by Joseph Losey, it stars Dirk Bogarde. An upper-class man hires a servant who turns out to have a hidden agenda. Harold Pinter (screenplay), Robin Maugham (novel) Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig.

    Joanna Wake as Her Friend. Harriet Devine as Her Friend.

    The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows

    Johnny Dankworth as Jazz Bandleader. Alison Seebohm as Girl in Pub. Chris Williams as Cashier in Coffee Bar. Gerry Duggan as Waiter. John Dankworth as Jazz Bandleader. Bruce Wells as Sidewalk Painter. View All The Servant News. August 29, Rating: July 23, Rating: July 16, Full Review…. June 24, Rating: May 20, Rating: January 1, Full Review….

    February 8, Full Review…. July 22, Rating: From the first frame it's clear we're about to see a masterpiece. April 8, Full Review…. They may well have been alive to its literary echoes. They understood how Jeeves had the upper hand. But Jeeves was entirely benign and discreet. He knew his place. JM Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton showed a butler taking power because he is the only one with practical knowhow when his aristocratic employers are shipwrecked with him on a desert island: As far as movies go, Joseph Losey's previous film with Dirk Bogarde had a similar cuckoo-in-the-nest theme.

    The Sleeping Tiger starred Bogarde as Frank, a criminal who is invited by a trendy psychotherapist to come and live in the family house, believing that a stable environment will help him. Frank makes himself at home and begins an affair with the therapist's troubled wife.

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    Bruce Wells as Sidewalk Painter. I would largely agree with that, particularly the point about a weak story. Philippa Hare as Girl in Bedroom. Loading comments… Trouble loading? The Films of Harold Pinter. The chapter could have done with a lot more exposition regarding the ending though, as it is so different from the novella. In the book the narrator meets Barrett in chapter 2:

    In later years, when live-in servants are less common, parallels with The Servant are less common also, but there is Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle featuring Rebecca De Mornay as the nanny who tries to take over the household. And a mention should go to Tinge Krishnan's social-realist drama Junkhearts , which features Eddie Marsan as the ex-soldier who befriends a young homeless teen and gives her a platonic bed for the night in his council flat, only to discover she wants to bring in her boyfriend, who has been planning from the outset to take over his property.

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    Even in context, however, The Servant looks unique: With its dark shadows, and faces distorted in convex mirrors, it looks like a scary movie, which is what it is. It was not unusual for instructions to be brusque, and the word "please" to be avoided, and a sentence rounded off with a curt "… would you? In Britain the rhetoric of class, like that of sex, was largely in code. This is what the outsider Losey orchestrates, what Pinter writes and what Bogarde embodies.

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