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Maidstone (1971)
Directed by Norman Mailer
Overview
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
Length 106 minutes
Actors
Norman Mailer | Rip Torn | Paul Austin | Joy Bang | Ann Barry | Beverly Bentley | Eddie Bonette | Steve Borton | Robert Byrne | Jean Campbell | Paul Carroll | Lang Clay | Harold Conrad | Lee Cook | Billy Copely | Terrayne Crawford | John De Menil | Tony Duke | Buzz Farber | Robert Gardiner | Leo Garen | Luba Harrington | Tim Hickey | Kahlil | Evelyn Larson | Robert Lucid | Mara Lynn | Diana MacKenzie | John Maloon | John Manazanet | Michael McClure | Carolyn McCullough | David McMullin | Penelope Milford | Glenna Moore | Leonard Morris | Adeline Naiman | Ula Ness | Alfonso Ossorio | Noel E. Parmentel Jr. | Maggie Peach | Alice Raintree | Jack Richardson | Lee Roscoe | Bianca Rosoff | Peter Rosoff | Barney Rosset | Shari Rothe | Cliff Sager | Lucy Saroyan | Brenda Smiley | Lane Smith | Sally Sorrell | Greer St. John | Carol Stevens | Danae Torn | José Torres | Hervé Villechaize | Ultra Violet | Jan Welt | Bud Wirtschafter | Harris Yulin | Joe Roddy | Ron Hobbs