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9 December 1968 (USA) morePlot:
The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
(6 articles)
Huge Amicus Horror Fest (From ESplatter. 30 December 2008, 8:05 PM, PST)
Controversial Playwright Harold Pinter Dead At Age 78
(From CinemaRetro. 26 December 2008, 9:52 AM, PST)
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Great early Harold! moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Robert Shaw | ... | Stanley Webber |
| Patrick Magee | ... | Shamus McCann |
| Dandy Nichols | ... | Meg Bowles |
| Sydney Tafler | ... | Nat Goldberg |
| Moultrie Kelsall | ... | Pete Bowles |
| Helen Fraser | ... | Lulu |
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MonoFilming Locations:
Worthing, West Sussex, England, UKFun Stuff
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Stanley Webber: How would you like to go away with me?Lulu: What?
Stanley Webber: How would you like to go away with me?
Lulu: Where would we go?
Stanley Webber: Nowhere...
Lulu: Well that's a charming proposal.
Stanley Webber: There's nowhere to go, so we could just go, it wouldn't matter.
Lulu: We might as well stay here.
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A wonderful play (which I've directed in the 80's) that cuts a scene from the play with Lulu..but is still PINTER! What can you say about this '58 play (film '68) except to say it's INTENSE. Robert Shaw as Stanley (post-James Bond and pre-Jaws and pre-The Sting)..most Americans (no offence)..don't even know who this guy is. Anyway, it's a brilliant parody of English (and everybody in the 50's) take on the one artist. Sidney Taffler as Goldberg is comical, frightening, bossy, and just plain "too much there". Patrick MaGee as McCann (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, BARRY LYNDON, Kubrick.etc.) is lone newspaper-ripping non-horror (or so you think) DUDE, who hung out with the The Beatles.
Decent version of a great early play of a genius..which bombed..duh? Stick with Meg and Petey and you can't go wrong or right. 20 years ahead of it's time as a play and 10 years...right.