
Maidstone
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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Norman Mailer
Writer

D. A. Pennebaker
Director of Photography

Norman Mailer
Director

Norman Mailer
Producer
Buzz Farber
Producer
Leo Garen
Associate Producer
Nicholas T. Proferes
Cinematography

Nick Doob
Cinematography
Diane Rochlin
Cinematography
Diane Rocklin
Cinematography
Sheldon Rochlin
Cinematography
Jan Welt
Editor