Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border 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. 

 

Directed by William Friedkin

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Screenplay by Harold Pinter from his own play

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Produced by Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky

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Also starring Sydney Tafler, Patrick Magee, Moultrie Kelsall, Helen Fraser and Dandy Nichols

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Released by Palomar Pictures international

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Release Date: December 9th 1968

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Running Time: 124 minutes

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Location(s): Worthing, West Sussex and Shepperton Studios

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Filming commenced March 25th 1968

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