Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “ A Gay Old Time .” In this week’s column, with late closeted film star Dirk Bogarde in the news, let’s revisit one of his great roles, 1963’s The Servant ...

The late Dirk Bogarde was a celebrated British actor who ... film to use the word “homosexual”) to the subtextual The Servant to 1971’s Death in Venice, which is all about queer desire ...