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Maidstone (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1970 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Norman Mailer

Written By:
Norman Mailer

Actors:
Norman Mailer ..... Norman Kingsley
Rip Torn ..... Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Paul Austin ..... Joy Broom
Joy Bang ..... Kingsley's wife
Ann Barry ..... Jeanne Cardigan
Beverly Bentley ..... Lazarus
Eddie Bonette ..... Luis
Steve Borton ..... Secret Service Chief
Robert Byrne ..... The Producer
Jean Campbell ..... Russian Delegate
Paul Carroll ..... Herself
Lang Clay
Harold Conrad
Lee Cook
Billy Copley
Terrayne Crawford
John De Menil
Tony Duke
Buzz Farber
Robert Gardiner
Leo Garen
Luba Harrington
Tim Hickey
Ron Hobbs
Kahlil
Evelyn Larson
Robert Lucid
Mara Lynn
Diana MacKenzie
John Maloon
John Manazanet
Michael McClure
Carolyn McCullough
David McMullin
Penny Milford
Glenna Moore
Leonard Morris
Adeline Naiman
Ula Ness
Alfonso Ossorio
Noel E. Parmentel Jr.
Maggie Peach
Alice Raintree
Jack Richardson
Joe Roddy
Lee Roscoe
Bianca Rosoff
Peter Rosoff
Barney Rosset
Shari Rothe
Cliff Sager
Lucy Saroyan
Brenda Smiley
Lane Smith
Sally Sorrell
Carol Stevens
Greer St. John
Danae Torn
José Torres
Ultra Violet
Jan Pieter Welt
Bud Wirtschafter
Harris Yulin

Synopsis:

The third (and last) of author Norman Mailer's experiments in cinéma vérité filmmaking created between 1968 and 1970, Maidstone stars Mailer as Norman T. Kingsley, a celebrated filmmaker who is often described as 'the American Buñuel.' Kingsley and a large retinue of friends, actors, and colleagues have descended on his estate in Upstate New York to work on his latest project, a sexually provocative drama. At the same time, Kingsley is planning to launch a campaign for president, and he's visited by a large number of guests eager to discuss his political perspectives, including journalists, academics, and a handful of African-American radicals. Also on hand is Kingsley's ever-present posse of hangers-on nicknamed 'the cash box,' led by his half-brother Raoul (Rip Torn). As a British television reporter records the proceedings for an upcoming profile, a shadowy group of American intelligence agents questions if the nation might be better off without the possibility of a Kingsley candidacy. In the film's final reels, Mailer and his cast and crew drop their collective improvisation and discuss their work so far before the camera, but Torn takes it upon himself to give the film the ending he feels it needs by attacking Mailer with a hammer. Fascinating if only for its remarkable portrait of Mailer's legendary ego in full flight, Maidstone would be the writer's last stab at filmmaking until he was hired to direct a film adaptation of his novel Tough Guys Don't Dance in 1987.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 14 January, 2009.

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