1968
6.4 (18 votes)
2h 3m
Genres
Drama
Comedy
Thriller
Production Companies
Palomar Pictures International
The Birthday Party
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.
Key Crew
Director: William Friedkin
Screenplay: Harold Pinter
Director of Photography: Denys N. Coop
Producer: Milton Subotsky, Max Rosenberg
Top 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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