The Birthday Party (1968)

12/09/1968 (GB) • 2h 3m

Drama, Comedy, Thriller

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.

Top Billed Cast

Robert Shaw

Stanley Webber

Patrick Magee

Shamus McCann

Dandy Nichols

Meg Bowles

Sydney Tafler

Nat Goldberg

Moultrie Kelsall

Pete Bowles


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

absurdist

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