The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party (1968) is a drama, comedy film directed by William Friedkin rated 6.5/10.

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.

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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