Budget (GBP) | 0 |
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Continental Distributing (Distributor | Est. Unknown) |
Release Date | 9 December 1968 |
Black and White | No |
Regional Release | No |
Release Notes | USA 9 December 1968; UK 1970; Spain 31 March 1976 (TV premiere); Italy November 2003 (Torino Film Festival); Greece 20 October 2006 (Panorama of European Cinema). |
Description | A man in his late 30s named Stanley is staying at a seaside boarding house, when he is visited by two menacing and mysterious strangers, Goldberg and McCann. Stanley's neighbour, Lulu, brings him a parcel, which contains a boy's toy drum, presented to Stanley as his "birthday present." Goldberg and McCann offer to host Stanley's birthday party after his landlady, Meg, tells them that it is Stanley's birthday, although Stanley protests that it is really not his birthday. Through the course of the party, the actions of Goldberg and McCann eventually break down Stanley, and they take him away from the house, purportedly to get medical attention (from "Monty") in their car. Meg's husband Petey (who did not attend the party because he was out playing chess) calls after Stanley: "Stan, don't let them tell you what to do". Meg, still somewhat hung over, is unaware that Stanley has been taken away, since Petey has not told her, and she tells him that she was "the belle of the ball." Pinter adapted his play as a screenplay for this film production. |
Language | English |
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Performer: Robert Shaw (1927 - 1978)
Performer: Sydney Tafler (1916 - 1979)
Performer: Dandy Nicols (1907 - 1986)
Performer: Moultrie Kelsall (1901 - 1980)
Performer: Helen Fraser
Performer: Patrick Magee (1922 - 1982)
New York Film Critics' Circle Award
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Nominated: Best Screenwriting
Boarding house scene
Production studio
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/Nation-1969jan06-00029/
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External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/Commonweal-1969feb07-00591/
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External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/NewRepublic-1969jan04-00024/
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External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1968dec07-00068/
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Steven H. Gale, Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)
Academic book
Contains chapters on each of Harold Pinter's filmed screenplays and includes a bibliography of reviews of films up to 1999.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a53878a
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