The Caretaker (also known as The Guest) is a 1963 British drama film directed by Clive Donner and starring Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence and Robert Shaw.

It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize.

The film was made by a partnership of six people, none of whom took payment: Clive Donner, Donald Pleasence, Alan Bates, Robert Shaw, Harold Pinter and Michael Birkett.

[1] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "With a screenplay by Pinter himself, and with two of the original cast repeating their stage performances on the screen, this is a very commendable example of the filmed play – worth making for the sake of bringing the authentic flavour of the original to a wider audience, and worth seeing if you missed it on the stage.

Donald Pleasence's singularly vile tramp and Alan Bates's eccentric joker certainly deserve to be preserved on film, and Robert Shaw, playing the brain-washed philanthropist with hypnotic distinction, gives a performance no less wonderfully right.