Maidstone (1970)
A Mystery by Norman Mailer
110 min
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.
- Release date
- March 9, 1971
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Norman Mailer as Norman T. Kingsley
- Rip Torn as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
- Paul Austin
- Joy Bang as Joy Broom
- Ann Barry
- Beverly Bentley as Chula Mae Kingsley
- Eddie Bonette
- Steve Borton
- Robert Byrne
- Jean Campbell as Jeanne Cardigan
Crew
- Norman Mailer · Director
- Norman Mailer · Writer
- Buzz Farber · Producer
- Norman Mailer · Producer
- Nick Doob · Cinematographer
- Richard Leacock · Cinematographer
- D.A. Pennebaker · Cinematographer
- Nicholas T. Proferes · Cinematographer
- Lana Jokel · Editor
- Norman Mailer · Editor
- Jan Welt · Editor