Budget (GBP) | 0 |
Distribution Company |
Caretaker Films (Distributor | Est. Unknown) |
Release Date | 27 June 1963 Confidence Level |
Black and White | Yes |
Regional Release | No |
Release Notes | West Germany June 1963 (Berlin International Film Festival); USA 20 January 1964 (New York City, New York); UK 13 March 1964 (London); Denmark 23 April 1964; Sweden 6 May 1964; France 7 January 1966; West Germany 6 January 1967; Finland 22 March 1968; Greece 13 October 2006 (Panorama of European Cinema). |
Description | The Caretaker is the 1963 film version of Pinter's 1960 play of the same name, adapted for the screen by Pinter. It was given the alternative title 'The Guest' in the U.S.A. In the film, an elderly tramp is taken in as a lodger by a vulnerable young man, whose cynical older brother is less than keen on the arrangement. A power struggle ensues, during which the three characters reveal uncomfortable truths about themselves. Adapting Pinter's play was first suggested by Clive Donner and Donald Pleasance after the play successfully moved from London to New York in 1960. Donner was initially unable to find a backer for the film but a private consortium, credited in the film as being Peter Bridge, Peter Cadbury, Charles Kasher, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Harry Saltzman, Peter Hall, Leslie Caron, Noël Coward and Peter Sellers, agreed to put up a minimum of £1000 each. |
Language | English |
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Creative | Director
Creative | Screenplay
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Production | Associate Producer
Production | Associate Producer
Production | Associate Producer
Creative | Music
Creative | Cinematographer
Creative | Film Editor
Creative | Art Director
Creative | Makeup Artist
Production | Production Manager
Creative | Assistant Director
Technical | Construction manager
Technical | Sound Recordist
Technical | Boom operator
Technical | Dubbing mixer
Technical | Camera operator
Technical | Assistant editor
Creative | Electronic Music Composer
Production | Continuity
Technical | Sound effects
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Aston's brother
Performer: Alan Bates (1934 - 2003)
Mick's brother
Performer: Robert Shaw (1927 - 1978)
Performer: Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)
Described as 'an old man'
Performer: Donald Pleasence (1919 - 1995)
Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear
1963
Won
Edinburgh Festival Certificate of Merit
1963
Won
Type: Review
Type: Review
Type: Review
Type: Review
Type: Review
Type: Archival holding
External Link: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1951to1964/popup/transcript/trans_caretaker.htm
Publicly available transcript of This Week In Britain No.199 'The Caretaker', 1963.
Type: Review
Type: Review
External Link: http://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1964feb15-00033/
Online version of print review.
Type: Review
Type: Review
Type: Review
Type: Article
External Link: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/12/archives/pinters-the-guest.html
Online version of print article.
Type: Documentary
External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xods41vmR7w
Ann Forsyth presents from the film location of The Caretaker in London. Includes information about the financial difficulties of the film and a brief on-set interview with Pinter.
Type: Newspaper article
External Link: https://www.proquest.com/docview/475614557/FA084EF458BD4A11PQ/21?accountid=14664
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http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/443431/index.html
URL
Film summary adapted from BFI Screenonline.
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.