What is The Birthday Party / The Boys in the Band about?

Double Feature: Archival Print! THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, 1968, Disney, 127 min. Dir. William Friedkin. Based on Harold Pinter’s celebrated play, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY stars Robert Shaw as Stanley, the put-upon tenant - with the menacingly enigmatic Patrick Magee and Sydney Tafler as the unwelcome strangers out to make Shaw’s marginal life a perfect hell. A master of adapting stage drama to film, Friedkin pushes Pinter’s savage material to its limits. THE BOYS IN THE BAND, 1970, Hollywood Classics, 120 min. Director William Friedkin’s adaptation of the landmark Off-Broadway play became his breakthrough film (and one of the first gay-themed Hollywood films). This scathingly funny bitch-fest swirls around nine men who gather for the birthday party of Harold (Leonard Frey), a self-described "32-year-old, ugly, pockmarked Jew fairy."

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What is The Birthday Party / The Boys in the Band about?: Double Feature: Archival Print! THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, 1968, Disney, 127 min. Dir. William Friedkin. Based on Harold Pinter’s celebrated play, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY stars Robert Shaw as Stanley, the put-upon tenant - with the menacingly enigmatic Patrick Magee and Sydney Tafler as the unwelcome strangers out to make Shaw’s marginal life a perfect hell. A master of adapting stage drama to film, Friedkin pushes Pinter’s savage material to its limits.

THE BOYS IN THE BAND, 1970, Hollywood Classics, 120 min. Director William Friedkin’s adaptation of the landmark Off-Broadway play became his breakthrough film (and one of the first gay-themed Hollywood films). This scathingly funny bitch-fest swirls around nine men who gather for the birthday party of Harold (Leonard Frey), a self-described "32-year-old, ugly, pockmarked Jew fairy."