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:
Writer:
Norman Mailer
Norman T. Kingsley
Rip Torn
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Paul Austin
Joy Bang
Joy Broom
Ann Barry
Beverly Bentley
Chula Mae Kingsley
Eddie Bonette
Steve Borton
Robert Byrne
Jean Campbell
Jeanne Cardigan
Paul Carroll
Lang Clay
Harold Conrad
Lee Cook
Lazarus
Billy Copely
Terrayne Crawford
John De Menil
Tony Duke
Buzz Farber
Luis
Robert Gardiner
Secret Service Chief
Leo Garen
The Producer
Luba Harrington
Russian Delegate
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
Adeline McCarthy
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
Herself
Jan Welt
Bud Wirtschafter
Harris Yulin
Joe Roddy
Ron Hobbs
D. A. Pennebaker on the Films of Norman Mailer: Maidstone
