The Birthday Party
– Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border in a British seaside dwelling who is visited ..
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border 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.
09 Dec 1968
English
All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.
William Friedkin
Harold Pinter (screenplay)
Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler, Dandy Nichols
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border 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.
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