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...SERVANT. Hellfire gleams through the tea-party facade of Dirk Bogarde, the conniving "gentleman's gentleman" who serves up Director Joseph Losey's message about class distinction in Britain with a dash of bitters...
...SERVANT. Hellfire gleams through the tea-party facade of Dirk Bogarde, the conniving "gentleman's gentleman" who serves up Director Joseph Losey's message about class distinction in Britain with a dash of bitters...
...shrewish monotone which neither entertains nor shocks, and they fail to distinguish between themselves so that their characters, except for different dresses, might be identical. Regan should be the softer, nicer of the two, but both come on like unsentimental Humphrey Bogarts. William Docken, as the simpering servant Oswald, easily upstages them...
...SERVANT is Director Joseph Losey's slick, frequently spellbinding study of class distinction in Britain. Dirk Bogarde contributes a perfect blend of good manners and menace as the "gentleman's gentleman" who destroys his master...
...Wynne seems to have been a petulant amateur. He was organizing exhibits of British industrial goods behind the Iron Curtain when the Foreign Office (which still officially denies it) pressured him into service as a courier. Wynne shuttled between British intelligence and one of its top Soviet sources, Civil Servant Oleg Penkovsky, who was later shot for treason. Molody had been a seasoned professional who arrived in Britain in 1955 with a Canadian passport and had set up an elaborate and highly successful spy ring...