The Servant Author:Robin Maugham Set in London just after the Second World War, Robin Maugham's slim, haunting novella is a confessional tale told in a simple, urgent voice by one Richard Merton. He tells the story of Tony, a close friend from the war, who breaking links with old friends and habits steadily comes under the influence of his sinister new butler, Barrett. Conc... more »erned for his friend, Richard slowly uncovers a strange affair in which both class and sexual barriers have disintegrated into a dark flux.
Filmed in 1963 by Joseph Losey, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, and starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox, "The Servant" is one of the key British films of the 1960s.« less