Directed by Norman Mailer
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Criterion Eclipse)
Three gangster-types hide out for weeks in a barren NYC apartment. They spend their time getting drunk, cleaning guns and arguing with each other. Eventually people start coming over to break up the monotony: wives, girlfriends, other gangsters and an aspiring boxer. Essentially a vanity piece for writer, director and star Norman Mailer, who peppers his indecipherable dialogue with grunts and barks. Technically primitive, little more than a bare apartment, a light bulb and a microphone, the sound is particularly bad, but the Criterion release has captions which help immensely in understanding what is being said.
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