"The simple classics are always the best."
Tony (James Fox), an aristocrat, hires manservant Hugo Barrett (Dirk Bogarde). Barrett wastes no time in getting his sister Vera (Sarah Miles) employed in the household, and she makes herself available to Tony, Then when Tony returns early from a weekend away with his girlfriend Susan (Wendy Craig) they find Barrett and Vera, in Tony's bed. Tony promptly sacks them, but later rehires Barrett. When he does the tables then turn, as the master/servant relationship flips, moving into darker realms.
A study into the class system, and who needs who, in the master/servant relationship, and is alive with a homosexual undercurrent. Stylishly underplayed from a claustrophobic and edgy script by Harold Pinter; all to a subtle jazz soundtrack.
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