StudioCanal have officially announced that they will release on Blu-ray director Joseph Losey's
The Servant (1963) starring Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, James Fox, and Wendy Craig. Recently restored and screened at the 2013 BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival,
The Servant will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on March 22.
James Fox plays a wealthy American who has escaped from his homeland in the wake of Communist paranoia. He returns to England from a holiday in Europe, buys a handsome Georgian townhouse and employs Dirk Bogarde as a house-keeper. However, Bogarde becomes steadily more pervasive and manages to engineer a role-reversal which results in him achieving control of his master.
Special Feaures:
- James Fox interviewed by Richard Ayoade
- Interview with Wendy Craig
- Interview with Sarah Miles
- Audio interview with Douglas Slocombe (Director of photography)
- Harold Pinter Tempo interview
- Joseph Losey talks about The Servant
- Interview with Stephen Wooley (fan of the film)
- Harry Burton (Pinter expert) on Harold Pinter
- Joseph Losey and Adolfas Mekas at the New York film festival
- John Coldstream (Bogarde biographer) on Dirk Bogarde
- Stills gallery
- Trailer