The Birthday Party
09/12/1968
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.
Drama
Comedy
Thriller
Movie Information
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
