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Beyond the Law

  • Rating: StarStar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Police Comedy, Police Drama
  • Director: Norman Mailer
  • 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

Cast


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

Peter Hansen - Sound/Sound Designer; Enrico Chroscicki - Producer; Buzz Farbar - Producer; Lana Jokel - Editor; Norman Mailer - Director; Norman Mailer - Editor; Norman Mailer - Producer; Norman Mailer - Screen Story; Norman Mailer - Screenwriter; D.A. Pennebaker - Cinematographer; Nicholas Proferes - Cinematographer; Jan Welt - Editor; Jan Welt - Cinematographer; Nina Schulman - Sound/Sound Designer; Frank Conroy - Composer (Music Score)
 
 
 

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