Beverly Bentley

Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.

Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.

An Englishman (Denholm Elliott) and a cabby (Peter Lorre) try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.