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The Birthday Party (1968)

Overview

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.
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William Friedkin profile
William Friedkin

Director

Harold Pinter profile
Harold Pinter

Screenplay

Cast

Robert Shaw profile
Robert Shaw

Stanley Webber

Patrick Magee profile
Patrick Magee

Shamus McCann

Dandy Nichols profile
Dandy Nichols

Meg Bowles

Sydney Tafler profile
Sydney Tafler

Nat Goldberg

Moultrie Kelsall profile
Moultrie Kelsall

Pete Bowles

Helen Fraser profile
Helen Fraser

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Robert Shaw profile
Robert Shaw

Stanley Webber

Patrick Magee profile
Patrick Magee

Shamus McCann

Dandy Nichols profile
Dandy Nichols

Meg Bowles

Sydney Tafler profile
Sydney Tafler

Nat Goldberg

Moultrie Kelsall profile
Moultrie Kelsall

Pete Bowles

Helen Fraser profile
Helen Fraser

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Extra

Release Date

December 9, 1968

Original Language

English

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

Palomar Pictures International logo

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