Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)
Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 crime mystery comedy-drama film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Theatrical release poster
Nachem Malech Mailer, known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.
Mailer photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1948
Mailer at his desk, 1967
Mailer in glider, 1970s
The 1986 PEN congress: (left to right) John Updike, Norman Mailer, E. L. Doctorow