The Birthday Party
1968•PG-13•2h 3m•6.6•Released
DramaComedyThriller
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.
Director
William Friedkin
Writer
Harold Pinter
Languages
English
Studio
Palomar Pictures International
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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Production
Company
Palomar Pictures International
Producer
Milton Subotsky
Producer
Max Rosenberg
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