Budget (GBP) | 135,000 |
Distribution Company |
Elstree Distributors Ltd (Distributor | Est. Unknown) |
Release Date | 3 September 1963 |
Black and White | Yes |
Regional Release | Yes |
Release Notes | Italy 3 September 1963 (Venice Film Festival); USA 16 September 1963 (New York Film Festival); UK 9 January 1964 (London); USA 16 March 1964; France 10 April 1964; Italy July 1964 (Festival dei Due Mondi); West Germany 14 August 1964; Sweden 14 September 1964; Denmark 21 September 1964; Austria October 1964; Italy 4 December 1964; Finland 26 March 1965; Spain 31 October 1967 (Madrid); Spain 13 November 1967 (Barcelona); Mexico 7 December 1967; Turkey June 1969; Portugal 25 September 1970; Belgium 30 May 1975 (Gent); Netherlands 28 June 1984 (re-release); France 7 August 2002 (re-release); Greece 12 October 2006 (Panorama of European Cinema); France 20 April 2011 (re-release); Japan 24 November 2012 (Osaka European Film Festival); USA 29 May 2014 (Seattle International Film Festival); France 20 August 2014 (re-release) (restored version); |
Description | An adaptation by Harold Pinter of a 1948 novella by Robin Maugham, The Servant is the story of a wealthy young man, Tony, taking a servant, Barrett, into his employ to look after his new house in London. The two men form a close relationship, which contributes to the eventual reversal of their power relationship. |
Language | English |
No linked Production have been added to this production record yet.
Creative | Director
Creative | Screenplay
Creative | Author (original novel)
Production | Producer
Production | Producer
Orchestrator | Music
Technical | Director of photography
Technical | Film editor
Creative | Production Designer
Creative | Art Director
Creative | Costume Designer
Creative | Hairdresser
Creative | Makeup Artist
Production | Production Manager
Creative | Assistant Director
Technical | Sound Recordist
Technical | Sound Supervisor
Technical | Sound Editor
Technical | Camera grip
Technical | Camera operator
Technical | Clapper loader
Technical | Focus puller
Orchestrator | Conductor
Orchestrator | Orchestrator
Production | Continuity
Production | Unit Publicist
Production | Production Assistant
Understudy: James Fox (1939)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Dirk Bogarde (1921 - 1999)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Wendy Craig (1934)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Sarah Miles (1941)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Richard Vernon (1925 - 1997)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Patrick Magee (1922 - 1982)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Chris Williams
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Alun Owen (1925 - 1994)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Alison Seebohm (1939 - 2015)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Philippa Hare
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Dorothy Bromiley (1930)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Derek Tansley (1917 - 2010)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Brian Phelan (1934)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Doris Knox (1916 - 1998)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Ann Firbank (1933)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Hazel Terry (1918 - 1974)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Jill Melford (1931 - 2018)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Catherine Lacey (1904 - 1979)
Wasn't Present
Uncredited.
Understudy: John Dankworth (1927 - 2010)
Wasn't Present
Uncredited.
Understudy: Harriet Devine
Wasn't Present
Uncredited.
Understudy: Davy Graham (1940 - 2008)
Wasn't Present
Uncredited.
Understudy: Colette Martin
Wasn't Present
Uncredited.
Understudy: Guy Standeven (1928 - 1998)
Wasn't Present
Uncredited.
Understudy: Joanna Wake (1940)
Wasn't Present
Understudy: Bruce Wells
Wasn't Present
Uncredited.
Understudy: Aileen Lewis (1914 - 2014)
Wasn't Present
British Screenwriters Guild Award
1964
Las Jornadas Internacionales de Cine, Spain
Unknown
Nastro d'argento (Silver Ribbon Award, Italy)
1966
Won: Best Foreign Film
New York Film Critics' Circle Award
1964
Won: Best Writing
BAFTA
1963
Won: Best British Actor: Dirk Bogarde
BAFTA
1963
Won: Best Black and White Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe
The filming location for the house in The Servant (1963). Director Joseph Losey lived on the other side of Royal Avenue to this location.
Barrett is seen crossing the road in front of Thomas Crapper's shop in The Servant (1963).
Type: Article
External Link: https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/servant-locations-joseph-losey-dirk-bogarde
Online article by Adam Scovell
Type: DVD
External Link: http://www.studiocanal.co.uk/Film/Details/89e6e81f-d991-420d-b2dc-a19b00a19cce
Studiocanal released a special edition of The Servant, including many interviews and archive material, to mark the film’s fiftieth anniversary in 2003.
Type: Newspaper article
External Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-servant-that-led-cinema-into-a-new-era-8535019.html
Geoffrey MacNab, 'The Servant that led cinema into a new era', The Independent, 15 March 2013.
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1964mar14-00017/
Type: Review
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1964/03/21/sinister-and-sunny
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/Nation-1964apr06-00354/
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/NewRepublic-1964mar21-00027/
Type: Review
External Link: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1963-11-30
Type: Review
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Type: Review
Type: Review
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Type: Trailer
External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hn2hbCg6Hs
Original trailer.
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/257882446/
Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England: the British Film Industry in the Sixties (London: Joseph, 1974)
Academic book
Edith de Rham, Joseph Losey (London: Andre Deutsch, 1991)
Biography
Steven H. Gale, Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)
Academic book
Contains chapters on each of Harold Pinter's filmed screenplays and includes a bibliography of reviews of films up to 1999.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/450491/index.html
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