The Birthday Party

2h 3m
DramaComedyThriller
6.4

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
Lulu

Crew

William Friedkin
Director
Harold Pinter
Screenplay, Theatre Play
Antony Gibbs
Editor
Denys N. Coop
Director of Photography
Andrew Grieve
Assistant Director
Edgar J. Scherick
Executive Producer
Max Rosenberg
Producer
Milton Subotsky
Producer
Alan Hall
Camera Operator
Eddie Knight
Makeup Artist
Alan Pattillo
Sound Editor
Jim Roddan
Sound Editor
Norman Bolland
Sound Recordist
Teresa Bolland
Production Manager
Edward Marshall
Art Direction

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