list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around The Servant on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/The_Servant/30671/default.aspx Title: The Servant
Year: 1963
Director: Joseph Losey
Plot: 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 nearly bankrupts Fox with expensive new furnishings. 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. To keep Craig at arm's length, Bogarde 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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:37:26 GMTThe Servant1963Joseph LoseyWealthy wastrel <a href="/players/P____90268/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>James Fox</a> hires insouciant cockney <a href="/players/P_____7026/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Dirk Bogarde</a> 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 nearly bankrupts Fox with expensive new furnishings. 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 <a href="/players/P____15577/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Wendy Craig</a> sees through Bogarde's game. To keep Craig at arm's length, Bogarde brings his own lady friend <a href="/players/P____49123/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sarah Miles</a> 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; <a href="/players/P___106552/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Harold Pinter</a> based his cryptic screenplay on a novel by Robin Maugham. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide314http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t150196om6t.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/The_Servant/30671/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/British_Invasion/Re_Favorites/188/6676/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Puhnner
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Post Date: 4/3/2007 9:17:50 AM
Body: Here are 5, ok 6, not in any particular order that I find quite amazing:The ServantGangster No.1The Fallen IdolThe Quiet American ( I have not seen the original, although the director for this version, Philip Noyce is Australian, still imparts the very Graham Greene/English/British sensibility )and of course,The Third Manand The Spy who came in from the ColdNow please don't ask me to define the 'English/ British Sensibility'; I do not have a clue. I think that I have been so completely bamboozled by a huge diet of PBS and Master Piece Theater, that these films define it for me. I would love to hear someone from England say ' you have got to be kidding, this stuff is tripe, now this is the real deal...' and then go on and list the ones...
]]>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:17:50 GMTPuhnnerBritish Invasion4/3/2007 9:17:50 AMHere are 5, ok 6, not in any particular order that I find quite amazing:The ServantGangster No.1The Fallen IdolThe Quiet American ( I have not seen the original, although the director for this version, Philip Noyce is Australian, still imparts the very Graham Greene/English/British sensibility )and of course,The Third Manand The Spy who came in from the ColdNow please don&#39;t ask me to define the &#39;English/ British Sensibility&#39;; I do not have a clue. I think that I have been so completely bamboozled by a huge diet of PBS and Master Piece Theater, that these films define it for me. I would love to hear someone from England say &#39; you have got to be kidding, this stuff is tripe, now this is the real deal...&#39; and then go on and list the ones... http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/drugs/MemberTagFilms.aspxdrugs
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