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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #1182
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1963
The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation's cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust finds the seemingly perfect manservant to oversee his new London townhouse. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social hierarchies are gradually, disturbingly destabilized. Lustrously disorienting cinematography and a masterful script by playwright Harold Pinter merge in The Servant, a tour de force of mounting psychosexual menace
Extras: featurettes; theatrical trailer
Based on the novella by Robin Maugham
Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig
Blu-ray, wide screen; mono.; requires Blu-ray player
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)