The Birthday Party (1968)

The Birthday Party (1968)

1968-12-09 United Kingdom 123 Min. PG-13
6.3 15 votes

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.

Cast

Robert Shaw is Stanley Webber
Stanley Webber
Patrick Magee is Shamus McCann
Shamus McCann
Dandy Nichols is Meg Bowles
Meg Bowles
Sydney Tafler is Nat Goldberg
Nat Goldberg
Moultrie Kelsall is Pete Bowles
Pete Bowles