Before you watch this movie, walk the dog, put the trash out, make some popcorn and get a drink with plenty of Ice and get comfortable because you will not be able to move once start watching this gem. Omg what a great movie this Is. I haven't seen anything this Intense In I don't know how long. Buckle up and enjoy.

Donald Pleasence deserved an Oscar for his acting in this movie. Simply outstanding.

I've been watching movies for 65 years and truly, Donald Pleasence performance in this film is one of the greatest I've ever seen.

I think Robert Shaw's monologue about what happened to him in the hospital is possibly the greatest piece of acting I ever saw.

Bates, Shaw, and Pleasence were national treasures of the UK. Very talented actors!

The movie starts, thanking special people for their financial support to make this movie possible, and the list includes Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Sellers, Richard Burton among others. If these people thought it was worth supporting, that is a good testimony. It had wonderful reviews too. I was instantly hooked. Such a gem to watch on this rainy, cold day in Melbourne. Well worth it! So enjoyable.👏👏👏👏

In a galaxy of great British stars, Donald Pleasence is, without a doubt, among the half-dozen finest actors ever to grace the English language - a truly dazzling performance.

No one can tell a story like Robert Shaw. This movie is brilliant. I love the bag scene. Genius. Donald pleasance is brilliant in this role.

I am an older person who likes the tension in older black and white movies 20's 30's 40's when sets were simple and expessions said it all. I have never seen a more EXCELLENTLY written produced acted set design camera lighting costumed makeup etc etc Thank You.

One of the best movies I have ever seen. Very deep, n realistic in all details. The kind of movie you never want to see end. Everything about it is classic. This is why British films are the very elite.

I'm laying in bed with my electric blanket while one of the worst winter storms I have ever seen rages outside my window. Had surgery last week to have some tumors removed ... the day before Christmas I woke up feeling horrible and did a covid test. Of course it was positive ! The hospital called to say that I should test as 90 % of the floor I was on have Covid. Doctors and nurses included. Now I am relaxing and watching this great old movie. I love not being able to figure out the good guy from bad, or their motives. Great movie so far! Cheers ✌

Robert Shaw plays a beautiful part in this, wonderful, a short hair cut, a distant stare, cool temperament and he steals the show.

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams....

Robert Shaw always had that air of barely restrained mayhem and menace behind his eyes.....like he could slit your throat without batting an eye and enjoy it. Brilliant actor who died too young.

Wow. Look at the list of the actors who financially produced this. Legends!

I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this masterpiece with everyone. I've seen this film three times now and I think it gets better with each watch. One needs to keep in mind this was made in 1963! Mental illness wasn't something people talked about. It was kept hidden. The script, acting, lighting, and pace make this a rare and perfect film. Everything is so incredibly accurate. If you have ever volunteered or worked in a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen, you will often see people EXACTLY like all three of those portrayed here. Not many movies can make you smell the atmosphere or truly feel the tiny space sucking the air out of the room. This is a true gem and I wonder why it did not receive more accolades. To have all three of these great actors working together is a dream come true for any cinephile. I am truly happy to see 1.8K people (so far) gave this a thumbs up! I honestly thought that number would be so much lower. Our choices now (and have been for a long time) saturated with superheros, blood and gore, non stop action and very little dialogue. It is what the majority of people want to watch. I guess that makes sense in some way since movies have always been a kind of mirror reflecting what is happening in our world at the time. The sixties were a time of change or tried to be. The subject matter of this film was still very brave for its time. Sorry, I didn't mean to write a book. I love this movie and really just wanted to thank you Johnny C for sharing it with everyone. I hope more and more people find it here on you tube. Again Johnny, thank you so very much.

Loneliness, mental illness, cognitive dissonance, and procrastination brilliantly evoked from 3 exceptional actors.

This is one of those ones man...only gets better, the more you think about it, the more often you watch it. The kind that sears itself into your psyche after one viewing. Same goes for The Servant. The genius of Harold Pinter in action.

I saw this in London in 1962; but with Peter Woodthorpe as Aston. He was an excellent actor, but Robert Shaw portrays the stillness and emptiness perfectly. And he was such a handsome man. All dead now.

I've stayed in houses like this one. I could feel its loneliness. You live in this house, you don't live anywhere.

Brilliant cast. Aston's monologue is very moving and hits home hard. One of Shaw's great performances.

Donald, the old guy's part was SUPERB and couldn't have been played any better by ANYONE.

I'm only 21, but this made me realize how dependent new movies are on special effects and pretty visuals instead of good acting and writing. Sure, the graphics might be more pleasing, but turn all the effects off and the stories would appear so much more shallow and boring.

Just three actors! A real tour de force from conception by Pinter to realization by the director, cinenatographer, and cast.

A true study of the human condition. Absolutely riveting!!.......also, this movie just proves how great of an actor that Donald Pleasence really was.

Three of the finest actors.

The quality of each actor was amazing. The actors were all fantastic. It was riveting and couldn’t stop watching this film. Shaw, Pleasance and Bates were mesmerising. Highly recommend this film for anyone who has any depth and understanding. Thank you for sharing .

now that was acting!! I was stunned by the pure perfection of this entire 'Caretaker'. I was wishing it never ended, but, it never really will.

Refreshing to see how many people appreciate this film. The writing, of course, is exceptional because it was a film version of Harold Pinter's first real commercial success in the theater. Because he adapted the play for the screen, it retained its original integrity and character. In Hollywood this is rarely done and they usually compromise the play a great deal making it into a "movie". Just a little exterior shooting, and the rest basically the original play. Brilliant cast, and perfectly cast I think; and not over directed. Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates were in the original theater production.

STUNNING MOVIE. Nothing changes, poverty, mential health issues still not addressed.

I grew up in Hackney where this was shot. Even today, in London, you see people like this on the streets. A fantastic and important film with incredible performances.

Compare this to the crap that comes out of hollywood! No comparison! 3 mesmerizing performances. Robert Shaw's character is the one we are watching closest. He plays it exquisitely. We really feel for him when he is sat on his bed telling of his electric treatment. That is not to take away from Donald Pleasance's super performance. Both performances were worthy of Oscar wins, with Alan bates worthy of an Oscar for supporting role. The film had that classic British charm and down to earth realism mixed with a mysterious, almost savage human reality. It was up there with 'Saturday night and sunday morning' yet with a bit of an 'Erazorhead' mystique about it. True class. I had never seen this before but I will happily watch it many times again in the future. Beautiful script, directing, haunting traces of musical scores gently absorbing you into the story as well as the house itself. The scene on the stairs where it is agreed that Pleasance would be caretaker was fantastic. One of my favourite films now. Well done for posting.

'Where were you born?' --- ''Huh... what do you mean?' Priceless! Loved it.

WOW!!.I was totally blown away by this HUGELY underrated,little known masterpiece.A complete classic diamond of a movie.I was held spellbound and mesmerised by all 3 actors,the entire cast ,their genius acting left me stunned. The film ended too soon for me. I could easily have carried on watching.I was so hypnotised by their stellar performances and sheer brilliance. The kind of movie that stays with you long after you’ve seen it.Having suffered in the past with mental illness and been in hospital myself.I recognised the characters and mentally ill symptoms of the actors in the movie.Much like people I met in hospital.Completely spot on target portrayals.Shaw, slightly sinister held me enthralled when he gave the monologue about what they did to him in hospital.Never missing a heartbeat for one second.Pleasance perfect as usual ,and of course the wonderful Alan Bates, who is one of my favourite actors ever.Who brought some humour in to the film and the unflinching dialogue about all the interior decorating and wish list of items he would like to get for the room.The dark sinister house with seemingly empty rooms filled with junk.They quite simply acted their socks off and in doing so blew me away.This film is wildly underrated.They just don’t make movies like this often.This had to have been a difficult subject to tackle in 1963.Mental illness and even homelessness just wasn’t talked about openly in those days.So before it’s time it’s crazy!.Still as controversial as it was back then.Why hadn’t I seen this film before now?.A complete tour de force with 3 of the best actors I’ve seen.Thank you,it was a pleasure to see.The film and the actors should have got Oscars.Quite simply spellbinding cinema at it’s finest.X

Bravo....Never felt bored once.I was totally gripped n intrigued by the characters, all three. The old man's ramblings cracked me up....the gibbering n the pace at which he spoke was genius.... Beautiful work.

Now this is a REAL film... With AWESOME performances by all

This is how I live in 2018. I didnt realise it was the same in 1963. one room living.

What a great play. All about the English language. 3 fine actors.I find modern television so shallow. So self indulgent.

FYI: Donald Pleasence 1919-1995, was a member of the RAF, and flew 60 missions over Europe in WWII, before being shot down, spending 1944-45 in a POW camp where he was tortured by sadistic nazi guards. Remember him in The Great Escape? He knew.

When it started I didn’t think I was going to enjoy it but it’s not meant to be a feel good movie. The feeling of loneliness and isolation pours out and the performances are brilliant. So glad they managed to make this film, it is a real gem. It captures so much on many levels and will stay in my mind for a long time.

One can never go wrong with Harold Pinter. A truly exceptional movie.

I have Never seen Donald Pleasance play a part like this, or even act like this ever before in a movie. His acting in this almost scared me, with his being so rough and almost wild like and angry.

In my early twenties I had the honor of playing the Shaw character in a community theater production... with my father as the old man -- what a rush! I remember the director gently helping me learn how to structure and internalize that heart wrenching monologue about his shock treatments -- longer (over ten minutes) and tougher than probably anything I've ever done, in or out of the theater. I sat at the edge of the stage, alone and figuratively naked. That incredible writing made it easy to get inside his pain and learn something about his lonely illness. Oddly, I've spent many of the fifty succeeding years struggling with my own bad depression. The movie script understandably has a lot changes from the play, including that speech. Every once in awhile I still find myself murmuring (with terrible cockney accent, no doubt) the opening line from the original: "I used to go down to the pub..."

A very powerful film of human observation and extremely well acted by the talented cast.

All the characters are failures of one kind or another. The apartment house will never be renovated, the shed will never be built and the homeless guy will never get his papers. It's like most people's lives. For one reason or another, they will never realize their dreams. Incredible acting.

Surreal - sad - poignant - masterful - A masterclass in writing and acting.

My God, what a great performance by DP. Best acting job I've seen in a long long while. Genius level.

I'm not sure why its taken so long for me to come across this play. (Im now 60). Im almost embarrassed, to admit it. We never studied it at school, but watching it now on You Tube, I can appreciate something of Harold Pinters brilliance. The acting in this is superb, so clever, and compelling to the end. Great film and something of a gem even though its also quite disturbing in places. Thanks so much for uploading.

Robert Shaw is utterly compelling. Three men, trapped in paralysis of mind, doing what needs to be done later, tommorow....

Robert Shaw's acting in Jaws had me completely convinced. This movie is just over the top. 3 great actors. Thanks for sending it our way!

The first time I saw this I was intrigued and thought it was a great film but it gets even better the more I watch it. Three superb performances from three wonderful actors. The diction and dialogue is so cleverly acted by the three contrasting actors. Thanks for sharing such an iconic work of cinematic art.

This 1963 classic was a real labour of love and was the result of a consortium including the director Clive Donner, the author Harold Pinter and three of the stars - Donald Pleasence, Alan Bates and Robert Shaw none of whom took any payment. Then it couldn't get any finance from the National Film Finance Corporation because it was judged not capable of gaining any commercial screening so a veritable who's who of British show business listed at the beginning of the film each contributed one thousand pounds each to provide the 30 thousand pounds budget which was very modest even for those days. It couldn't get any British theatre to screen it until after it had been released in the USA to great critical and popular acclaim. It subsequently won the Silver Bear Extraordinary July prize at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. Today, it is considered a major film achievement.

I was blown away by the excellent performances of Robert Shaw, Alan Bates and especially the outstanding artistry of Donald Pleasance. I have seen Mr Pleasance’s performances in many films but this must surely be his apex. Amazing writing, production, settings and direction in this memorable mental health epic. Thank you so much.

An examplary drama of Absurdism by Harold Pinter , portraying after war circumstances and chaos in life ....acting is just sublime.

One of the best and most thought-provoking movies I have ever seen. Absolutely brilliant. And Robert Shaw was such a good looking man.

City permits, detailed measurements , land surveys, administration costs.....I can see how building a shed would drive anybody nuts...It took me 10 years to get mine done...it was a rite of passage..

I love to watch noir movies because it is all about the reality we live today, I born in the 70's but I have always loved noir movies, a movie with a story to tell. Thank you for sharing it with us!

My first exposure to Pinter -- took me long enough! Much more dynamic than I'd been led to expect.

All the great movies that came out when I was a child, that I never got to see. Thanks, KZfaq, for allowing me to see them now.

You will never see acting like this today...Amazing professionals.

A brilliant movie.. one of the best portrayal of human relations.. love, loathe, happiness, desire, despair, dream, ambitions, hope and hopelessness... thanks for introducing to this 💎...

Ohh this one is brilliant! Thanks for the share. Every drama student needs to study this one. Hollywood sucks today. No creativity.

This is superb! Perfect acting from highly skilled actors. Perfect direction. Perfect production. And a superb break through script by Sir Harold Pinter. A masterclass on every level.

Nick Roeg is one of great cinematographers and Film Directors, anyone recall, "Don't Look Back?" This whole production is the art of filmmaking with most talented people in the industry. Thank you for making it available.

The Master of “The Theatre of Menace,” Harold Pinter, strikes again with one of his absolute greatest works brilliantly performed by Alan Bates, Robert Shaw, and Donald Pleasence directed by Clive Donner. Pinter’s plays are so multi-layered and downright original that one must watch and especially listen carefully to each word of them again and again, and with every viewing gain some added insight into Pinter’s genius as the world’s premier playwright and, in many cases, screenwriter. This one, ‘The Caretaker,’ is a truly fine gem.

Great acting. Suspensful tension throughout...I enjoyed it. Although if i recommended it to a friend they'd think I was nuts. lol

I got out of this story... 1: You are your caretaker and 2: Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Great laid back story! Thanks for the upload.

Pleasence' performance was about as great as great gets.

This was fantastic! I came across it by accident and was riveted from the first moment and all the way through. A great example of unfinished, stagnated lives.

I performed a short segment of this play during my final few weeks in the Lower 6th form in 1977. It was the part where Alan Bates and Donald Pleasance first spoke to eachother after Robert Shaw had brought him home with him. I played the brother (Bates) but I can't remember the name of my counterpart playing the vagrant. Our English teacher had a tape recording of a drip into a bucket playing throughout our performance. It was a showcase cum talent show and there were prizes, our performance was dismal and we got eliminated fairly quickly. We were up against all the cool guys and popular girls doing West Side Story or something. I have never seen this film until today. My what an eye opener. What was our English teacher thinking??? Now I've seen it, now I know how it is supposed to be performed, now I see the inescapable downward spiral of a tramp who can't help cut off his nose to spite his face at the slightest provocation, shouting the odds at a storm while on a sinking ship, with plans of some urgency to get to Sidcup, a destination he shall be returning from shortly with papers that may or may not actually exist. I think back to my performance at school that day. Even if I had the passion, the understanding, the desire to emulate Alan Bates performance as closely as my practically non existent talent tmwould allow, and my fellow actor could muster a performance in the spirit that Donald Pleasance delivered with such mastery, we'd still have been eliminated. Sorted out any delusions of becoming an actor that day that's for sure.

Totally mesmerizing. Stunning performances by Robert Shaw and Donald Pleasence. I have never seen this play before and found it heartbreaking. Brenda

Interesting use of shadows which often "reflected" the anger and bitterness all three characters harbored in their mind and soul. A heartbreaking tale of loneliness and mental dysfunction and pain.

Love the creepy non-music 'score'. Fine acting all around, Donald Pleasence is riveting.

I love movies like this - an interestingly simple story & setting. The acting is absolutely top notch :)~~~

I was born when this came out and it is my first viewing. I now know the true travesty of computer games and the deficit of today's youth culture.

An acting masterclass as others have noted. Alan Bates in particular is wonderful and has some of the best lines. A great study for film buffs. Thanks for this.

I didn’t know of this film until now. It is not only a great film: it is a great work of art. Absolutely riveting. Three of the all-time great actors at the very top of their game. Almost too much to absorb. And such a magnificent script. Thank you for posting this. It is a work that deepens our understanding of humanity. We are so much richer, in the truest and deepest sense, for having experienced it.

Saw this with my father when I was a teenager. Gets better with the passage of time.

It's a little known fact that Elizabeth Taylor actually made all the costumes for this herself. Ms Taylor had spent most of her youth studying theatre costume and set design. Here., in the Caretaker she gets to finally show her talent and distinct gift in dressing actors in costumes that themselves speak and move. I read that the bucket collecting the droplets of water from a "supposed leaking roof" was also her idea . Pinter had to write those lines after the fact . Evidence again that Elizabeth Taylor was a true drama genius . Alan Bates is said to have taken the bucket home with him after filming finished and it sat centre piece in his own lounge for years. I can only imagine the after dinner conversations that this bucket would have started in the Bates household. Brilliant just brilliant

When I was a child I used to watch old movies by myself. I loved the suspense I didn't care how long they last , the black and white didn't matter to me. I missed them Thank god for TMC.

This movie was not what I was expecting at all. I wasn't sure if I would get into it, the first 5 minutes, then once past that, I was completely sucked in. Not sure how I would describe it to a friend, but it was riveting. Thanks for the upload.

god it's wonderful to watch Donald Pleasance do anything. One of the very greats, really and truly.

The sheer sensitivity, talent, required to write and play these roles is mind boggling. To understand the mechanisms one must surely have probed the roots. I have always been fascinated by the people that live outside of society, in the street obviously mad, how they manage to feed themselves and get by despite their madness, not that this applies to this film. Tremendous food for thought here. Thank you for the upload.

Many thanks for this, what a gem! Quality acting without any CGI, just a true human story from a time when there was a real flowering of this kind of cinema.

A Masterpiece.

Thank you so much for sharing this and your patience without people like you these films would be lost thank you 😊

A gripping look into a depressing situation. Superbly acted.

Pleasence is just astonishing!

Great character acting portraying a tour de force of social dysfunction.

This movie and the actors intrigue me. There should have been plenty of awards handed out. What a heck of a ride watching everything unfold. Great acting, great directing.

Harold Pinter with all of the most talented actors has to be a winner........thank you

Harold Pinter one of Britains best Playwriters

A very good adaptation of Harold Pinter's play. Robert Shaw's monologue in the film, is the equal of the one in "Jaws." All three actors give outstanding performances.

The smell of the claustrophobic, damp , cluttered rooms, nearly wafts of the screen.

Acting and dialogue of the highest quality.Three absolute actors at the top of there game,Bates, Pleasence and Shaw all of who went on to appear in many top films throughout there careers.

Excellent production of pinter maybe even surpasses the servent. With the best of British acting. Pleasance shaw and bates at the peak of their form

Enigmatic, tour-de-force performances all round and a fantastic quality 'print' to boot - thanks for posting!

i think the old movies are best

Brilliant film, just brilliant. I loved every minute of it. This is certainly not for the faint of heart.

I was mesmerized! Outstanding acting! I identified mostly with Donald! Grippingly entertaining! Bravo!