Could “The Servant” be the coldest film ever made? Glaciers might be melting, the polar caps might be crumbling, but not even the passage of half a century has taken the frozen edge off this ...

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Had Robin Maugham been less stubborn, we might not have the director Joseph Losey’s serenely chilling 1963 film adaptation of Maugham’s novella “The Servant.” But Maugham, a nephew of the writer W.

Posh Tony hires the seemingly proper and very attentive Barrett as his manservant. Soon Tony's lady friend, Susan disapproves of the ever unflappable Barrett, which causes a strain in the couple's ...

The Servant is for the most part strong dramatic fare, though the atmosphere and tension is not fully sustained to the end. Harold Pinter's screenplay based on the Robin Maugham novel is distinguished ...