Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection
A box set of features starring the inimitable Dirk Bogarde. Films Comprise: 1. Accident (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1967) 2. The Servant (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1963) 3. The Blue Lamp (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1950) 4. Victim (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1961) 5. Hunted (Dir. Charles Crichton, 1952) 6. The Spanish Gardener (Dir. Philip .. Read more
| Starring | Harold Pinter, Sylvia Sims, Michael York, Jack Warner |
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| Director | Basil Dearden |
| Genres | Drama |
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Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection
A box set of features starring the inimitable Dirk Bogarde.
Films Comprise:
1. Accident (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1967)
2. The Servant (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1963)
3. The Blue Lamp (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1950)
4. Victim (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1961)
5. Hunted (Dir. Charles Crichton, 1952)
6. The Spanish Gardener (Dir. Philip Leacock, 1956)
7. The Sleeping Tiger (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1954)
| Starring | Harold Pinter, Sylvia Sims, Michael York, Jack Warner, Vivien Merchant, Patrick Magee, Bernard Lee, Dirk Bogarde, Dennis Price, Jacqueline Sassard, James Fox, Stanley Baker, Tom Courtenay, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, Leo McKern |
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| Director | Basil Dearden |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 8 hrs 5 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 23 Jul 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection (7 discs)
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Sign up Accident
In 'Accident' (1967) Two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their ca...
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In THE SERVANT, Joseph Losey's 10th film made in the U.K. after his 1951 blacklisting in the U.S., the powerfu...
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Sign up The Blue Lamp
An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp concentrates on interrelated episodes i...
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An intriguing story of an eminent barrister who reveals his homosexual past to thwart blackmail....
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A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority....
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Sign up The Spanish Gardener
When his young son befriends a newly hired servant, a jealous British diplomat in Spain plans to sabotage thei...
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Sign up The Sleeping Tiger
'The Sleeping Tiger' (1954) sees a psychiatrist bring a criminal into his home as an experiment, after catchin...
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Scripted by Harold Pinter from Robin Maugham's novel, this claustrophobic tale of envy and manipulation sees James Fox descend from a champagne lifestyle into a decadent dependence upon his servant, Dirk Bogarde. The snarling story is handled with great insight by director Joseph Losey, who had keenly studied the British class system since being exiled from Hollywood in 1951 during the Communist witch-hunt. Sarah Miles and Wendy Craig impress as the women caught in the powerplay, but this is essentially a two-hander, with Fox admirable as a latter-day Sebastian Flyte and Bogarde (finally nailing his matinée reputation) chilling as the mercenary valet.
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Acclaimed in many quarters on its first release, this downbeat melodrama now seems rather naïve and long drawn out; its surface gloss is undeniable, but the final orgy is more risible than satanic.
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Nightmare in Knightsbridge
The Servant is odd, but a timeless masterpiece, whether viewers like it or not. But this Pinter adaptation is not meant to be liked. It is unsettling but riddled with clues that you are too engrossed to notice as you watch. And it has a voyeuristic quality that makes it seem very modern.
Tony is too trusting, but he is rich and thinks himself infallible and 'Barrett' is a consummate con artist The tension comes from knowing what this 'gentlemen's gentleman's game is, when 'sir' doesn't. It is a pleasure to watch two well cast actors get so involved in their roles. The verbal and physical sparring matches between Dirk Bogard and James Fox are well worth a viewing if you are one who loves to watch actors really relishing their work.
The house 'Sir' and The Servant live in, though claustrophobic from the start, slowly descends into little more than a cesspool even though it doesn't change much physically, but the mirror on the wall tells no lies. Sara Miles at her most nubile as the 'sister' cum 'bait' effortlessly unleashes sir's formerly hidden, but totally unruly appetites, rendering him totally disinterested in his high brow 'lady' love.
We know the roles between master and servant will inevitably reverse, but the most fascinating part is in seeing how it all comes together, or falls apart. -
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Let's play Master and Servant
Utterly compelling and beautifully shot and acted, this is a disturbing and haunting movie. Dirk Bogarde reveals another side to his nature with his performance, and dispels forever the character of Simon Sparrow in the Doctor movies made a few years before.
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Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection
A box set of features starring the inimitable Dirk Bogarde.
Films Comprise:
1. Accident (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1967)
2. The Servant (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1963)
3. The Blue Lamp (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1950)
4. Victim (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1961)
5. Hunted (Dir. Charles ...
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