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Bookmark this pageThe Birthday Party (1968)
Director: William Friedkin
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Film version of Pinter's first full-length play, a rather unsubtle and flashy piece of seaside gothic in which a scruffy, stay-at-home boarding-house lodger is terrorised by two sinister visitors: rather clever inversions of the stereotypic stage Jew and Irishman. Seems long and fussy, partly the fault of both play and director, but some marvellous performances (Nichols creating her Silly Moo character, Tafler superb as the anecdotal Goldberg) make it worth seeing.Author: SG
Cast & crew
Director: William Friedkin
Producer: Max J Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
Cast: Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Dandy Nichols, Sydney Tafler, Moultrie Kelsall, Helen Fraser full cast
Duration: 124 mins
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