The Birthday Party

United Kingdom

• PG-13
• 1968-12-09(US)
• ▪

  Drama,

  Comedy,

  Thriller
• ▪ 2h-3m

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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.

• William FriedkinDirector

  Harold PinterScreenplay

  Harold PinterTheatre Play

  Denys N. CoopDirector of Photography

  Milton SubotskyProducer

  Max RosenbergProducer