Maidstone

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Norman Mailer

Writers

Norman Mailer

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

9 March 1971

Ensemble

Cast

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  Norman Mailer

  Norman T. Kingsley

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  Rip Torn

  Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

• Paul Austin

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  Joy Bang

  Joy Broom

• Ann Barry

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  Beverly Bentley

  Chula Mae Kingsley

• Eddie Bonette

• Steve Borton

• Robert Byrne

• Jean Campbell

  Jeanne Cardigan

• Paul Carroll

• Lang Clay