The Hireling DVD, 1973

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MovieMail's Review

Forbidden infatuation, as with this adaptation of LP Hartley’s tale of the relationship between a chauffeur and a Lady, is a wonderful visual subject for cinema. Longing, jealousy and voyeurism can be set to work in a network of social boundaries and locations that continually evoke the possibility of transgression. Here, Sarah Miles plays widowed Lady Franklin, who, on her departure from a psychiatric hospital, starts to talk to her chauffeur, a bullish ex-Sergeant Major, thereby sending his thoughts towards her along dangerous routes.

Along with its Grand Prix from Cannes in 1973, The Hireling won three BAFTAs: for Art Direction, Costume Design, and – for Peter Egan, who oozes effortless, insolent charm as an aristocratic politician who takes Lady Franklin’s eye – Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. Also deserving of mention is Marc Wilkinson’s score. His theme for Blood on Satan’s Claw was memorably unsettling. Here too, his music calls up dark shades of discomfiture that are never quite dispelled.

Graeme Hobbs on 30th January 2009
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Film Information

Director - Alan Bridges

Produced - 1973

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - British Film

Cast - Sarah Miles, Elizabeth Sellars, Robert Shaw, Peter Egan, Petra Markham

DVD Details

Certificate:	PG	Publisher:	Columbia Tri-Star	Region:	2
Length:	103 mins	Cat No:	CDR10207
Format:	DVD Colour	Subtitles:	English HoH

Film Description

A recently widowed aristocrat Lady Helen Franklin (Sarah Miles), shattered by her husband's death, takes to a sanatorium to get her feet again. On her discharge she strikes up a hesitant relationship with her driver (Robert Shaw). A passionate and sensitive film that captures the intricacies of the British class system in the early 1920s, from the book by L P Hartley.