The Birthday Party is a 1968 British drama mystery thriller film. It features Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler, Dandy Nichols, and Moultrie Kelsall. 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.