The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party

123 mins | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | Dec. 9, 1968

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.

The Birthday Party

123 mins | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | Dec. 9, 1968

The Birthday Party
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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Palomar Pictures International
Original title The Birthday Party
Directors Andrew Grieve, William Friedkin
Writers Harold Pinter

Cast

Robert Shaw

as Stanley Webber

Patrick Magee

as Shamus McCann

Dandy Nichols

as Meg Bowles

Sydney Tafler

as Nat Goldberg

Moultrie Kelsall

as Pete Bowles

Helen Fraser

as Lulu