
The Birthday Party
63.61%
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December 9, 1968
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Drama, Comedy, Thriller
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
Featured Crew
William Friedkin
Director
Harold Pinter
Screenplay
Harold Pinter
Theatre Play
Cast

Robert Shaw
Stanley Webber

Patrick Magee
Shamus McCann

Dandy Nichols
Meg Bowles

Sydney Tafler
Nat Goldberg

Moultrie Kelsall
Pete Bowles