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Norman Mailer (writer)
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19 March 1970 (Denmark)
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A night in a Manhattan police station. | add synopsis
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Norman being tough in a police station and making us strain to understand what his characters are saying.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rip Torn | ... | Popcorn |
 | George Plimpton | ... | Mayor |
| Norman Mailer | ... | Lt. Francis Xavier Pope |
| Mickey Knox | ... | Mickey Berk |
| Buzz Farber | ... | Rocco Gibraltar |
| Beverly Bentley | ... | Mary Pope |
| Mary Lynn | ... | Ilse Fuchs |
| Marsha Mason | ... | Marcia Stillwell (as Marcia Mason) |
| John Maloon | ... | John Francis |
| Mary Wilson Price | ... | Judy Grundy |
| Peter Rosoff | ... | Subway Arrestee |
| Noel E. Parmentel Jr. | ... | Assistant District Attorney |
| Edward Bonetti | ... | Wife Killer |
| Jack Richardson | ... | Jack Scott |
| Michael McClure | ... | Grahr |
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References The Incredible Sex Revolution (1965)
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A vanity project of the most arrogant sort. Andy Warhol's EMPIRE would be far better to watch. The problem is the sound, not the poor camera-work. I can take shadows, bodies in front of speakers, off-kilter framing, but I can't accept a novelist-director allowing the dialog to be completely muddy, drowned out, and unintelligible. A boom mike expertly handled would have allowed us to hear many of the words. Our ears don't muddy sound that badly in a crowded police station. But Mailer never gave us a chance to hear any more than 5% of the dialog. I detest the word "pretentious," but that's the only way to describe this auditory nightmare. Certainly an oddity to be experienced but only for five minutes. Read his wonderful prose works instead of trying to understand what he and his characters are saying in this film. He was a master of description and written dialog, but here the words are lost in the wilderness of bad technology.