The Servant

Synopsis

An indolent, aristocratic young London bachelor buys a stylish Georgian townhouse and hires an obsequious, immaculately efficient manservant named Barrett to manage the property, unaware that the servant is gradually manipulating his employer into psychological dependency, introducing a seductive young woman claiming to be his sister and systematically reversing the class power balance inside the townhouse. Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter's chilling psychological class study starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox.