“The Servant” opens on an especially bleak day that creates the scene for what is to come. It’s typical of the care with which “The Servant” is put together that not only does his wife, the gifted Cleo Laine, sing the film’s “All Gone” theme song (with lyrics by Pinter) but she sings it with three arrangements, so its emotional weight is different every time. Slocombe, who cut his teeth on such classic Ealing comedies as “Kind Hearts and Coronets” and “The Lavender Hill Mob,” smoothly handles the difficulties of this very different kind of situation, which involved everything from complex tracking shots to photographing a convex mirror.Īlso essential is composer John Dankworth, whose cool jazz score sets the appropriate mood. One of the things this fine restoration emphasizes is the splendor of Douglas Slocombe’s moody black and white cinematography.
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