The Birthday Party
- Released on
- Runtime
- 123 mins
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.
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
- Patrick Magee
- Dandy Nichols
- Sydney Tafler
- Moultrie Kelsall
- Helen Fraser
Director
- William Friedkin
Producers
- Milton Subotsky
- Max Rosenberg
Screenwriter
- Harold Pinter
