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The Birthday Party

63 %|Dec 9, 1968|Thriller, Drama, Mystery

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
Denys N. Coop
Director of Photography
Teresa Bolland
Production Manager
Edgar J. Scherick
Executive Producer
Andrew Grieve
Assistant Director
Antony Gibbs
Editor

Cast

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Robert Shaw
Stanley Webber
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Patrick Magee
Shamus McCann
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Dandy Nichols
Meg Bowles
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Sydney Tafler
Nat Goldberg
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Moultrie Kelsall
Pete Bowles