The Birthday Party

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

• Robert ShawStanley Webber
• Patrick MageeShamus McCann
• Dandy NicholsMeg Bowles
• Sydney TaflerNat Goldberg
• Moultrie KelsallPete Bowles
• Helen FraserLulu