Dirk Bogarde Collection (Accident/The Mind Benders/The Servant)
by Joseph Losey, Basil Dearden
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Actor: Catherine Lacey, Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy CraigDirector: Basil Dearden, Joseph Losey
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 329 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Dirk Bogarde Collection (Accident/The Mind Benders/The Servant)
Movie Review: Essential for Bogarde Fans
Summary: 5 Stars
Though he is seldom mentioned in the same company as Laurence Olivier or Ralph Richardson, Dirk Bogarde is unquestionably one of the finest British actors - and compared to his other distinguished Knighted contemporaries, he was arguably the finest film actor of the lot. With his striking features and easy charm, Bogarde became a matinee idol early on - a label he detested. After appearing in a string of mostly forgotten comedies, Bogarde found an ideal artistic "partner" in the blacklisted American director Joseph Losey. They worked together for the first time on the pulpy, but stylish, melodrama The Sleeping Tiger (1954), which Losey was forced to sign as Alex Hanbury. When they reunited later, for 1963's The Servant, the end result would establish them both as forces to be reckoned with. It's appropriate, then, that this box set from Anchor Bay includes The Servant, as well as arguably the finest of the Losey/Bogarde collaborations, 1967's Accident. Both films show Bogarde and Losey at the top of their form, feeding off each other's respective creative gifts and working from top notch screenplays by the noted playwrite Harold Pinter. The Servant is arguably the more accessible of the two films, having a more clearly defined plot, but Accident stands out as one of the most striking British films of the decade - it unfolds in an impressionistic manner and is less concerned with contrivance than it is with nuance and detail. The "odd man out" of the set would have to be Basil Dearden's sci-fi drama The Mind Benders, which is still of interest as it predates the central theme of Ken Russell's Altered States (1980) by many years. Bogarde gives another compelling performance as a scientist whose experiments in sensory depravation reveal hidden facets to his personality, and the film itself has aged more gracefully than some of the more outlandish sci-fi pictures of the period. All three films are given excellent transfers, and while one could wish for better supplementary material (trailers and talent bios are all there is to be found), it's nevertheless a terrific intro to one of the finest and most creatively fearless British actors.
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