Release Date

09 Mar, 1971

Runtime

01:46: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

A Mystery by Norman Mailer

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.

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Actors

Norman Mailer

Rip Torn

Paul Austin

Joy Bang

Beverly Bentley

Penelope Milford

Lane Smith

José Torres

Hervé Villechaize

Ultra Violet

Jan Welt

Bud Wirtschafter

Harris Yulin

Crew

Norman Mailer

D. A. Pennebaker

Norman Mailer

Buzz Farber

Leo Garen

Norman Mailer

Nick Doob

Richard Leacock

Nicholas T. Proferes

Sheldon Rochlin

Diane Rocklin

Diane Rochlin

Jan Welt

Norman Mailer