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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.Read moreLess
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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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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Robert ShawStanley Webber
Patrick MageeShamus McCann
Dandy NicholsMeg Bowles
Sydney TaflerNat Goldberg
Moultrie KelsallPete Bowles
Helen FraserLuluExplore the crew
- Director
- William Friedkin
- Screenplay
- Harold Pinter
- Director of Photography
- Denys N. Coop
- Producer
- Milton Subotsky
- Editor
- Antony Gibbs
- Producer
- Max Rosenberg