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Directed by Joseph Losey, a British-based American with a string of doggedly minor works to his credit, the film on its most meaningful level is acid splashed into the wound of class distinction. But it is best enjoyed simply as a slick, spooky, frequently spellbinding study of corruption...
...this point, The Servant earns A-l references. Playwright Harold Pinter, debuting as a scenarist, writes such deadly efficient dialogue that even talk about the weather sounds ominous. And Losey's camera works every angle, scooting upstairs and down, bobbing from floor to ceiling, peering over banisters. Like an evil-minded snoop, it catches all: every secret glance and unguarded gesture, every telltale truth. Only occasionally does the technique become selfconscious, with one too many shots into rain puddles or oval mirrors...
Even lacking total credibility, The Servant shakes the senses by wallowing in the triumph of evil over evil. But if Losey intends an all-out attack on Britain's caste system, he may have blundered into a paradox. Many a viewer will come away feeling that a world of candlelight and polished silver might be perfectly satisfactory-if only the hired help knew its place...
...Servant plays morbid variations on the theme of Othello. Directed in Britain by Joseph Losey, an American who lives and works in Europe, the film tells how a sinister servant destroys his master by playing to his weakness for women...
...Concrete Jungle. This strange, taut, jagged British crime movie crackles with the excitement of a cool jazz score and U.S.-born Director Joseph Losey's subtle vision of crime and the criminal...