The Birthday Party (1968)
123 min
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.
- Release date
- December 9, 1968
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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Cast
- Robert Shaw as Stanley
- Patrick Magee as McCann
- Dandy Nichols as Meg
- Sydney Tafler as Goldberg
- Moultrie Kelsall as Petey
- Helen Fraser as Lulu
Crew
- William Friedkin · Director
- Harold Pinter · Writer
- Max Rosenberg · Producer
- Milton Subotsky · Producer
- Denys N. Coop · Cinematographer
- Antony Gibbs · Editor