Pulp

Pulp
original film poster
Directed by	Mike Hodges
Produced by	Michael Klinger
Written by	Mike Hodges
Starring	Michael Caine Mickey Rooney Lionel Stander Lizabeth Scott
Music by	George Martin
Cinematography	Ousama Rawi
Editing by	John Glen
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	1972
Running time	95 minutes

Pulp is a 1972 British comedy thriller film, directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels. The film features the final screen appearance of Lizabeth Scott.

Plot

King, living in Rome churning out one noir book after another, is offered an abnormally large sum to ghostwrite the autobiography of a mystery celebrity. The intrigued King agrees and is transported to a remote island (Malta, where the entire film was shot) where he meets his subject, Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney), a one-time movie star known for playing gangsters and notorious for hanging out with real-life mobsters off the set. Now dying of cancer, Gilbert wants King to jot down his life story before he dies. However, the star is murdered at a party, leaving King with no conclusion to his tale. Playing detective like the heroes of his stories, King pieces together the mystery.

Cast

• Michael Caine as Mickey King
• Mickey Rooney as Preston Gilbert
• Lionel Stander as Ben Dinuccio
• Lizabeth Scott as Princess Betty Cippola
• Nadia Cassini as Liz Adams
• Dennis Price as Mysterious Englishman
• Al Lettieri as Miller
• Leopoldo Trieste as Marcovic
• Amerigo Tot as Partisan
• Robert Sacchi as Jim Norman

External links

• Pulp at the Internet Movie Database

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