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Maidstone (1971)

Maidstone (1971)

Drama

A Mystery by Norman Mailer

Release Date: 1971, March 9
Directors: Norman Mailer
Countries: United States of America
Production: Supreme Mix Productions, Supreme Mix Productions
Cast: Rip Torn, Ultra Violet, Norman Mailer, Beverly Bentley, Jean Campbell, Joy Bang, Lee Cook, Buzz Farber, Robert Gardiner, Luba Harrington, Adeline Naiman

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.