

The Birthday Party
1968
2h 3m
6.4
US
Drama
Comedy
Thriller
Overview
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.
Movie Details
Languages
English
Studio
Palomar Pictures International
Key Crew

William Friedkin
Director

Harold Pinter
Screenplay

Milton Subotsky
Producer
Cast

Robert Shaw
Stanley Webber

Patrick Magee
Shamus McCann

Dandy Nichols
Meg Bowles

Sydney Tafler
Nat Goldberg

Moultrie Kelsall
Pete Bowles

Helen Fraser
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