The Birthday Party

Dec 9, 1968

2h 3m

★ 6.4

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.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Thriller

Production Companies

Palomar Pictures International

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Cast

Stanley Webber

Robert Shaw

Shamus McCann

Patrick Magee

Meg Bowles

Dandy Nichols

Nat Goldberg

Sydney Tafler

Pete Bowles

Moultrie Kelsall

Lulu

Helen Fraser

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