Michael King is a seedy writer of sleazy pulp genre novels under a half-dozen sensational pseudonyms whose ambition is to dictate ten thousand words per minute to stenographers a la Earle Stanley Gardner. He's recruited by the agent of Preston Gilbert, a quirky ex-Hollywood star currently living reclusively in exile in Malta, to help him write his biography. Despite being pursued by an enigmatic hitman, Gilbert has a large entourage of eccentrics and remains an inveterate pra... (Full plot summary below)
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Michael King is a seedy writer of sleazy pulp genre novels under a half-dozen sensational pseudonyms whose ambition is to dictate ten thousand words per minute to stenographers a la Earle Stanley Gardner. He's recruited by the agent of Preston Gilbert, a quirky ex-Hollywood star currently living reclusively in exile in Malta, to help him write his biography. Despite being pursued by an enigmatic hitman, Gilbert has a large entourage of eccentrics and remains an inveterate practical joker. After Gilbert is eventually murdered by an apparent Priest, King tries to stay alive while interacting with a variety of idiosyncratic characters including an ersatz Princess, a henpecked clairvoyant, and a cross-dressing hitman.
Leave your thoughts about Pulp.
| Times (UK)Kevin MaherPulp is an underrated comedic masterpiece. |
| PopMattersMichael BarrettIt functions less as a pulpy mystery or gangster tale than as a spoof of same, albeit a spoof that retains a noirish sense of fate and power. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceHodges avails himself of the private-eye genre's deaths, sex and homophobia, yet comedy loosens his nihilism |
| User Reviewmonsieur rThis underrated & understated ingenious gem of a film is as clever and hilarious as Michael Caine is English. Easily one of the best movies ever made! |
| User ReviewNaomi G"Hodges avails himself of the private-eye genre's deaths, sex and homophobia, yet comedy loosens his nihilism" i liked this and also this is the last movie (so far) of lizabeth scott one of my fave actresses |
| User ReviewToni SOnly for fans of Michael Caine, Mickey Roony and Nadia Cassini...or die-hard followers of movies made in Malta. |
| User ReviewPeter KBrilliant. Mickey King: Then I read in The Guiness Book of Records about Erle Stanley Gardner, the world's fastest writer, who can dictate up to the rate of 10,000 words a day. That was for me. None of that romantic stuff with a typewriter. I had better uses for those two particular fingers. |
| User ReviewMarj DMarvellous! Michael Caine has just the right deadpan delivery of lines for this black comedy and Mickey Rooney is perfect as Preston Gilbert. I saw this at the Edinburgh Film Festival with a Q&A by the director Mike Hodges. He said the studio were not keen for Rooney to play the part and tried to suggest all sorts of other actors, including Victor Mature. Hodges held out for Mickey Rooney though and thank goodness he did! |
| User ReviewTom MMichael Caine plays a sharp and observant writer of pot-boiling pulp fiction who is just barely sharp and observant enough to stay alive but not out of trouble when he's hired to write a bio of a fading Hollywood star with mob connections. And those connections fear the story he writes will reveal an old secret. Caine is perfectly sharp in the role, and Mickey Rooney plays his part to the hilt as the aging and self-absorbed star. The movie is a perfect rainy-day British who-dunnit romp. |
| User ReviewAllan CCaine and Hodges re-teamed after "Get Carter" to make this crime film. However, where "Get Carter" was a tough, mean, tale of revenge, this one goes more for parody of crime films with mixed results. Worth watching though. |
