Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
'Will The Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?' is the filmed counterpart to Mailer's Pulitzer-winning nonfiction novel The Armies of the Night. Documenting the author's participation and arrest for transgressing a police line in the September 1967 March on the Pentagon, the film captures Mailer, at the height of his 60s literary fame, appearing in several of his many guises: journalist, film director, father, anti-war crusader, novelist, intellectual gadfly, television personality, provocateur. With appearances by future film director James Toback, talk show host Merv Griffin and legendary NY disc jockey "Cousin" Brucie.
- Runtime
- 1h
- Released
- 1968
- Country
- Canada
Details
Release year: 1968
Storyline
'Will The Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?' is the filmed counterpart to Mailer's Pulitzer-winning nonfiction novel The Armies of the Night. Documenting the author's participation and arrest for transgressing a police line in the September 1967 March on the Pentagon, the film captures Mailer, at the height of his 60s literary fame, appearing in several of his many guises: journalist, film director, father, anti-war crusader, novelist, intellectual gadfly, television personality, provocateur. With appearances by future film director James Toback, talk show host Merv Griffin and legendary NY disc jockey "Cousin" Brucie.
Top credits
Merv Griffin — Self
Norman Mailer — Self- 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow — Self
James Toback — Self
Did you know
• This National Educational Television documentary, a study of author Norman Mailer, was produced outside the NET precinets.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Color
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