Name: King, Murray
Released: 1969
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Cast: Murray Ramsey King, Laura Kaye, Gloria Riegger, Jackie Morris, Addie Pezzotta

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jan 1969

Premiere Information

New York opening: 27 Apr 1969

Production Company

Amram Nowak Associates; Leeam Lowin Productions

Distribution Company

EYR Programs; Iconographic

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 26m

Synopsis

A fictionalized account of 72 hours in the life of a successful, 46-year-old insurance salesman and former college teacher, Murray King. The picture begins as King drives his Cadillac from his expensive home on Long Island's North Shore to the estate of a client who has just signed for a $2 million life insurance policy. Following a visit to another client, King shows the filmmakers his office and talks with them about the junket he is making to Las Vegas that evening with several clients and friends. After taking two secretaries for a hamburger at a luncheonette which he patronizes because it is called "King's," he makes two business calls, then drives to the airport to meet his guests, including several attractive women. Once in Vegas, King stops briefly at an expensive restaurant and then chats with the movie-makers in his Caesars Palace hotel suite. The next morning King swims the length of a pool underwater, plays tennis with the film's producer, and invites three girls to watch him being massaged. King then argues with the filmmakers and gets them to let him have a "shower scene" in which the most buxom of the beauties, a teacher of retarded children, soaps his back. That evening during a hotel room party, King describes a motel orgy he attended and then confesses that he made it up for the cameras. The picture ends with a dream sequence of a generously endowed woman on a sandy beach, the personification of American escapism.