![The Birthday Party Poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500//qgPV2nIX4i7pmoUF3ds6PBjBrhB.jpg)
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](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//bU4IJ4J1mgrriRTdQ4BOemoHvtt.jpg)
Robert Shaw
Stanley Webber
![Patrick Magee](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//99xStF5zQy6qkDxLnIVaKD3urzI.jpg)
Patrick Magee
Shamus McCann
![Dandy Nichols](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//kOF7x205JqOyjwWkgAWzkMtQBcn.jpg)
Dandy Nichols
Meg Bowles
![Sydney Tafler](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//oN5ZolUFZYWrqOTaujkZ62kVCl2.jpg)
Sydney Tafler
Nat Goldberg
![Moultrie Kelsall](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//id9GYrN9q4XGYYsJ064iSyLgEcG.jpg)
Moultrie Kelsall
Pete Bowles