Maidstone

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 9, 1971

Original language

English

Production

Supreme Mix Productions

Cast

Ann Barry,Lucy Saroyan,Harris Yulin,Brenda Smiley,Bianca Rosoff,Jean Campbell,Buzz Farber,Tony Duke,José Torres,Hervé Villechaizeand 54 more

Director

Norman Mailer

Writer

Norman Mailer

Producer

Buzz Farber,Norman Mailer

Cinematography

D. A. Pennebaker

Music

Carol Stevens

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0064625