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Maidstone

42% | Mar 09, 1971 | Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Norman Mailer
Writer
D. A. Pennebaker
Director of Photography

Cast

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Norman Mailer
Norman T. Kingsley
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Rip Torn
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
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Joy Bang
Joy Broom
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Beverly Bentley
Chula Mae Kingsley

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