- HD 1080
- Runtime: 123m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: William Friedkin
- Stars: Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Dandy Nichols, Sydney Tafler, Moultrie Kelsall
- keywords: absurdist
- Production_studio: Palomar Pictures International
- The The Birthday Party is featured in the top rankings of 1968
- #42 in Top Comedy Movies of 1968
- #70 in Top Drama Movies of 1968
- #22 in Top Thriller Movies of 1968
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.