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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: Accident (1967 film), Betrayal (1983 film), Langrishe, Go Down (film), Remembrance of Things Past (play), Reunion (1989 film), Sleuth (2007 film), The Basement (play), The Birthday Party (film), The Caretaker, The Caretaker (film), The Comfort of Strangers (film), The French Lieutenant's Woman (film), The Go-Between (film), The Handmaid's Tale (film), The Homecoming (film), The Last Tycoon (film), The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, The Remains of the Day (film), The Servant (1963 film), The Trial (1993 film), Turtle Diary. Excerpt: The Caretaker is a play in three acts by Harold Pinter. Although it was the sixth of his major works for stage and television, this psychological study of the confluence of power, allegiance, innocence, and corruption among two brothers and a tramp, became Pinter's first significant commercial success. It premiered at the Arts Theatre Club in London's West End on 27 April 1960 and transferred to the Duchess Theatre the following month, where it ran for 444 performances before departing London for Broadway. In 1964, a film version of the play based on Pinter's unpublished screenplay was directed by Clive Donner. The movie starred Alan Bates as Mick and Donald Pleasence as Davies in their original stage roles, while Robert Shaw replaced Peter Woodthorpe as Aston. First published by both Encore Publishing and Eyre Methuen in 1960, The Caretaker remains one of Pinter's most celebrated and oft-performed plays. A night in winter Aston has invited Davies, a homeless man, into his apartment after rescuing him from a bar fight (7-9). Davies comments on the apartment and criticizes the fact that it is cluttered and badly kept. Aston attempts to find a pair of shoes for Davies but Davies rejects all the offers. Once he turns down a pair that doesn't fit...