The Birthday Party
1968, Film, 123 min, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 65
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.
Directed by William Friedkin
Cast
- Robert Shaw as Stanley
- Patrick Magee as McCann
- Sydney Tafler as Goldberg
- Dandy Nichols as Meg
- Moultrie Kelsall as Petey
- Helen Fraser as Lulu
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