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Mike Hodges (written by)
Release Date:
November 1972 (USA)
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Tagline:
Write it. Live it. But try not to be it. more
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A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta. full summary | add synopsis
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Stenographer
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Exile
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Eccentric
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Princess
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A Comedy Treat
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael Caine | ... | Mickey King |
 | Mickey Rooney | ... | Preston Gilbert |
 | Lionel Stander | ... | Ben Dinuccio |
| Lizabeth Scott | ... | Princess Betty Cippola |
| Nadia Cassini | ... | Liz Adams |
| Dennis Price | ... | Mysterious Englishman |
| Al Lettieri | ... | Miller |
| Leopoldo Trieste | ... | Marcovic |
| Amerigo Tot | ... | Partisan |
| Robert Sacchi | ... | Jim Norman (as Roberto Sacchi) |
| Giulio Donnini | ... | Typing pool manager |
| Joe Zammit Cordina | ... | The Beautiful Thing |
| Luciano Pigozzi | ... | Clairvoyant |
| Maria Cumani Quasimodo | ... | Office manager (as Maria Quasimodo) |
| Liu Bosisio | ... | Typist #1 |
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Memoirs of a Ghostwriter (USA) (working title)
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95 min
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The original title was "Memoirs of a Ghostwriter".
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Mickey King:
You are my very first princess.
Princess Betty Cippola: Am I?
Mickey King: I'll bet that was a fairy tale romance.
Princess Betty Cippola: On the contrary, the prince was very hetero.
Princess Betty Cippola: [to Gilbert] Isn't that right, superstar?
Preston Gilbert: Heh, heh, heh.
Mickey King: Isn't he big in the New Front?
Princess Betty Cippola: Yes, but he was a Christian Democrat when I met him.
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Princess Betty Cippola: Am I?
Mickey King: I'll bet that was a fairy tale romance.
Princess Betty Cippola: On the contrary, the prince was very hetero.
Princess Betty Cippola: [to Gilbert] Isn't that right, superstar?
Preston Gilbert: Heh, heh, heh.
Mickey King: Isn't he big in the New Front?
Princess Betty Cippola: Yes, but he was a Christian Democrat when I met him.
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References The Pink Panther (1963)
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This film confounded those who were expecting a performance from Caine that echoed the 'hard man of few words' character which he mastered in Get Carter only one year before Pulp. Some saw it as playing his recent success for laughs, but when viewed separate from Get Carter, the jokes still stand up. The sense of farce builds and the sinister setting and plot twists move the story along without breaking the essential flow. Much of the comedy comes from well delivered one liners parodying the pulp novelist, so often seen today but done well for the first time in this film, but the understated "black slapstick" and the stoic character portrayed by Caine have much comedic value. The main reason this film is little known now is that it never quite fit into a genre very well. The only advice I can offer is to watch the film without Caine preconceptions and let the laughs come.