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The Birthday Party (1968)
Directed by William Friedkin
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.
Rated PG-13 | Length 123 minutes
Actors
Robert Shaw | Patrick Magee | Dandy Nichols | Sydney Tafler | Moultrie Kelsall | Helen Fraser