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The Birthday Party

63% | Dec 09, 1968 | Drama, Comedy, Thriller

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

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

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