Enter mccannpatrick magee and goldbergsydney tafler. The birthday party is william friedkins screen adaptation of harold pinters 1958 play, a claustrophobic, frenzied tale of a surly british boarding house lodger terrorized by two interrogators from something called the organization. The birthday party 1968 watch full lengths online movies. The downatheel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away. Ordinarily, i would complain when a movie like the birthday party does not expand on its stage. Robert shaw plays a boarder in a sleazy british seasideresort. Its decrepit seaside boarding house setting and the. Shamus mccann and nat goldberg drive away with stanley on the morning after his birthday party. With robert shaw, patrick magee, sydney tafler, dandy nichols. It is based on the 1957 play the birthday party by. Based on a fishoutofwater premise, the film is about bungling actor from india, hrundi v. Sonny and cher spoof many hollywood classic movie scenes. The birthday party is a 1968 british drama neo noir directed by william friedkin and starring robert shaw.
The birthday party is william friedkins screen adaptation of harold pinters 1958 play, a claustrophobic, frenzied tale of a surly british. As a play, it works brilliantly because the characters are caught together on the stage in their own. The film has the same effect as a bothersome itch that cant be scratched. It was one of my favorite plays in college, and the only pinter film adaptation i could not find on netflix, so i was excited to find it at video. As a play, it works brilliantly because the characters are caught together on the stage in their own logic. The film has a very loose structure, and essentially serves as a series of set pieces for sellerss improvisational comedy talents. Now that friedkins film is itself over 30 years old, the scent of mothballs ought to be even more pronounced. Film version of pinters first fulllength play, a rather unsubtle and flashy piece of seaside gothic in which a scruffy, stayathome boardinghouse lodger is.