Beverly Bentley

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.

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.

L'histoire d'une folle nuit dans un commissariat de Manhattan et un bar proche de celui-ci.

Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. The loser of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as boarders. But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman selected from the applicants, the captains get cold feet.

Misères et splendeurs d'un vagabond sélectionné pour une émission de télévision où il fait merveille. Devant un tel succès, "Lonesome" Rhodes est vite courtisé par toutes les chaines de télévision et devient un animateur vedette jusqu'au jour où il doit préparer l'élection du sénateur Fuller. Marcia, à l'origine de son ascension fulgurante, effrayée par son cynisme, rétablit le son au moment où Lonesome, se croyant hors d'antenne, dit tout ce qu'il pense de tout le monde.

Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.