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Director:
Mike Hodges
Writer:
Mike Hodges (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
November 1972 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
Write it. Live it. But try not to be it. more
Plot:
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
User Comments:
Brilliant Film more

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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Memoirs of a Ghostwriter (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:12 (video rating) | UK:AA (original rating) | Australia:M | Sweden:15 | USA:PG
Filming Locations:
Malta

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The original title was "Memoirs of a Ghostwriter". more
Quotes:
Mickey King: [voice-over] I am famous for such books as "My Gun is Long". I have many aliases. I am authors Susan Eager and Paul S. Coming. I am those and others. I am Paul Strong, Gary Rough and Les B. Han. more
Movie Connections:
References Dr. No (1962) more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Brilliant Film, 31 December 2005
10/10
Author: ninfilms from United Kingdom

After making the greatest gangster film Get Carter, it was probably was going to be hard for Mike Hodges and the team behind Get Carter, to accomplished a film better than Get Carter.

Wisely Hodges decided to make a film that wasn't gangster flick. Pulp is a quirky eccentric film. Caine is great as the pulp writer, along with Mickey Rooney as an ex actor. One things I like to mention is the music by George Martin, producer of all the brilliant Beatles songs, creates a memorable soundtrack.

Pulp remained me of Hodges later film Croupier which deals with a struggling writer, I would recommend Pulp to anyone whose a Mike Hodges fan.

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