servants
movies in which there is a clearly identifiable SERVANT ARCHETYPE; initially, MALE, BUTLER VALET MAN-SERVANT
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- DirectorJohn LandisStarsEddie MurphyDan AykroydRalph BellamyA snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.Colman - efficient, discreet indispensable butler; neither quality of life nor achievements of his masters would be possible without him and his knowable faithful help.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyWilliam DieterleStarsErrol FlynnClaude RainsHenry StephensonA poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.soldier - but in the role of a servant to the prince, servant by choice
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsWilliam PowellCarole LombardAlice BradyA scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.an impoverished destitute nobleman (after the Depresion) becomes a "butler" by accident when found on a garbage dump by two rich capricious spoilt lost by excess of money sisters. one of them marries him eventually, the younger one, after he saves the family from bankruptcy and destitution with a pearl necklace strategically placed in ill-will sabotage by the older sister who wanted him thrown in jail for criticising her flighty lifestyle.
- CreatorEd HaasNorm LiebmannStarsFred GwynneAl LewisYvonne De CarloA family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.faithful servant LURCH, fits well with the family, complements them well
- DirectorPeter LordNick ParkStarsMel GibsonJulia SawalhaPhil DanielsWhen a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.husband in the role of a servant
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantJoan FontaineVictor McLaglenIn 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.a noble water carrier, a lowly servant who saves them all
- DirectorVidhu Vinod ChopraStarsAmitabh BachchanSaif Ali KhanSanjay DuttAs the kingdom of Devigarh comes apart at the seams, an aging bodyguard attempts to protect the Royal Family, as well as keep its darkest secrets from ever coming to light.a faithful servant completely safe-efacing, self-denying, unto death!
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsTony CurtisNatalie WoodJack LemmonIn the early 20th century, two rivals, the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate, engage in an epic automobile race from New York to Paris.professor Fate's faithful ill-treated servant Max; completely devoted to his master's evil aims.
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsHugh O'BrianShirley EatonFabianTen people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?hired servants with dirty conscience and criminal tendencies
- DirectorRené ClairStarsBarry FitzgeraldWalter HustonLouis HaywardSeven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.criminal tendencies in servants
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsDirk BogardeSarah MilesWendy CraigUpper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.shadow servant profoundly destructive, eventually swapping places with his master
- DirectorDerek BennettStarsDavid LangtonGordon JacksonAngela BaddeleyRichard and Hudson realize the complicated fraternal relationship when their respective brothers visit London.the rules of co-existence between English aristocracy and their servants
- DirectorWalter LangStarsWilliam PowellAnnabellaHelen WestleyA butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
- DirectorGodfrey GraysonStarsEdward RigbyHenry MollisonMercy HaysteadA British nobleman who has spent the majority of his life running a tropical island returns to England. He finds that an island princess has fallen in love with his butler. Finding that unseemly, he sets out to break up the budding romance and send the woman back where she came from. Complications ensue.
- DirectorSteve GordonStarsDudley MooreLiza MinnelliJohn GielgudAlcoholic billionaire playboy Arthur Bach must marry a woman he does not love, or he will be cut off from his $750,000,000 fortune. But when Arthur falls in love with a poor waitress, he must decide if he wants to choose love or money.faithul man-servant Hobson (Sir John Gielgud), like a father
- StarsRichard GriffithsBenjamin WhitrowFelicity MontaguHard-partying wine merchants Jack and Hugo lose all their money and are forced to work for a living.the English aristocracy's attitude to the servants, total disregard of their humanity, disrespect for their work, taking their privilege for granted; the English class system
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGlenn FordBette DavisHope LangeA New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.Edward Everett Horton as Hudgins, a noble great man-servant - butler with a sense of humour and justice, without whom the miracle Cinderella's mother's transformation could not possibly have succeeded!
- DirectorSyd MacartneyStarsTruan MunroNic KnightKaren SaltPrince Horace is the spoiled and arrogant heir to the throne whose continual pranks are designed to get his distant father's attention. Young Jemmy is a desperate streetwise orphan trying to survive with his sister.servant boy swaps places, accidentally, with a king's son spoilt brat
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsCharlton HestonRoddy McDowallKim HunterAn astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.the principles of a class system, masters and servants are presented as intellectually and morally justifiable
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen BoydAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.servant/slave redeems his soul from the sins of pride hubris and anger, learns his lessons at the edge of saving his life, to control his temper and feel compassion, becomes an adopted son of a senator, and after further work on his soul even gets back his house, his mother and sister are miraculously healed from leprosy, and he wakes up his heart for the servant/slave girl who loves him
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsDick Van DykeBarbara FeldonJohn McGiverA butler and the staff of an eccentric aged philanthropist whose family wealth is exhausted engage in larceny and crimes to maintain her lifestyle and provide funds for her charitable activities.Dick van Dyke as Claude R. Fitzwilliam, a morally flexible servant/butler takes care of the old penniless aristocratic lady whom he loves like his own mother
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingChristopher LeeMichael GoughWhen Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.could not function without a faithful servant
- DirectorDuccio TessariStarsAlain DelonStanley BakerOttavia PiccoloIn the New World, a new Spanish governor finds the province of Nueva Aragón under the iron fist of the corrupt Colonel Huerta and vows to bring justice under the guise of a masked avenger.mute servant
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsFeodor Chaliapin Sr.George RobeyOscar AscheIn Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, Sancho Panza, to reform the world and revive the age of chivalry, choosing a slut to be his noble lady Dulcinea. He mistakes inns for castles, a play about chivalry for the real thing, flocks of sheep for armies, convicts for wronged prisoners, and windmills for giants. While he and Sancho are off on their adventures, his niece, her fiancee, and the local priest think up a strategy to get him back home.indispensable faithful servant
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.a cheating servant of a cheating gambler
- DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.passpartout - faithful French servant to an excentric Englishman
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.androids as servants; Chubaka; Darth Veder's multitude of assistants in the psychological roles of servants or slaves
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsMichael KeatonJack NicholsonKim BasingerThe Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsKhalid AbdallaAhmad Khan MahmoodzadaAtossa LeoniAfter spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.Ali, a faithful servant to the rich Afgani widower and his son a faithful friend to the master's son (an illegitimate secret son fathered on the servant's wife); devastating guilt and a sense of worthlessness is destructively projected onto the half-brother who loves him;
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsDan O'HerlihyJaime FernándezFelipe de AlbaThe classic story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.his faithful felper Friday