Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, Catherine Lacey,
Plot: Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse…
Joseph Losey’s The Servant (1963): Criterion Blu-ray review
Criterion’s new 4K restoration of Joseph Losey’s The Servant (1963) provides an excellent showcase for this pitch-black satire about the collapse of the British class system after World War Two and the dissolution of Empire. Harold […]