Betrayal (1983 film)

Betrayal is a 1983 film adaptation of Harold Pinters 1978 play of the same name. With a semiautobiographical screenplay by Pinter, the film was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Jones. It was critically well received, praised notably by New York Times film critic Vincent Canby and by Chicago SunTimes film critic Roger Ebert. Distributed by 20th Century Fox International Classics USA, it was first screened in movie theaters in New York in February 1983.

Pinter based the drama on his sevenyear 196269 clandestine affair with television presenter Joan Bakewell, who was married to producerdirector Michael Bakewell. At the time, Pinter was married to actress Vivien Merchant.The Seinfeld episode The Betrayal, telecast November 20, 1997 was inspired by this movie. Borrowing the films structure, events in the episode occur backwardswith the end at the beginning and vice versa. ........

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