The Birthday Party

Name: The Birthday Party
Cast: Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Dandy Nichols, Sydney Tafler, Moultrie Kelsall

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: William FriedkinWriter: Harold PinterProducers: Edgar J. Scherick, Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky

Robert Shaw

as Stanley Webber

Patrick Magee

as Shamus McCann

Dandy Nichols

as Meg Bowles

Sydney Tafler

as Nat Goldberg

Moultrie Kelsall

as Pete Bowles

Helen Fraser

as Lulu

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