Main Cast: Rip Torn, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Mickey Knox
Release Year: 1967
Country: US
Run Time: 87 minutes
Plot
Author Norman Mailer's sporadic ventures into filmmaking are usually pretty bad, but never without interest. Beyond the Law co-stars Mailer and several of his cronies, including fellow-author George Plimpton and actor Rip Torn. Also in the cast is Beverly Bentley, the onetime Mrs. Mailer. Set in a New York police precinct house, the improvised plotline concerns illicit gambling, motorcycle bums and corrupt city officials. The stilted, self-conscious performances of the cast indicate that Mailer might have been better off with a real script. Only Rip Torn looks as though he's playing a character rather than playing an actor playing a character. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Beverly Bentley - Mary Pope; Mary Lynn - Ilse Fuchs; Marcia Mason - Marcia Stillwell; Mary Wilson Price - Judy Grundy; Noel Parmental - Asst. District Attorney; Jack Richardson - Jack Scott; Harold Conrad - Perry Fuchs; Michael McClure - Grahr; Edward Bonnetti - Wife Killer; Peter Rosoff - Subway Arrestee; John Maloon - John Francis; José Torres; Tom Baker; Günther Stoll; Buzz Farbar - Rocco Gibraltar; Frank Conroy - Diner
Credit
Norman Mailer - Director, Lana Jokel - Editor, Norman Mailer - Editor, Jan Welt - Editor, Frank Conroy - Composer (Music Score), D.A. Pennebaker - Cinematographer, Nicholas Proferes - Cinematographer, Jan Welt - Cinematographer, Enrico Chroscicki - Producer, Buzz Farbar - Producer, Norman Mailer - Producer, Peter Hansen - Sound/Sound Designer, Nina Schulman - Sound/Sound Designer, Norman Mailer - Screen Story, Norman Mailer - Screenwriter
