The Birthday Party
Director
William Friedkin
Screenplay
Harold Pinter
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
Dec 9, 1968
Budget
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Country
United Kingdom
Revenue
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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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