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Pulp (1972) 6.0
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. Director:Mike HodgesWriter:Mike Hodges |
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| Michael Caine | ... |
Mickey King
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| Mickey Rooney | ... |
Preston Gilbert
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| Lionel Stander | ... |
Ben Dinuccio
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| Lizabeth Scott | ... |
Betty Cippola
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Nadia Cassini | ... |
Liz
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| Dennis Price | ... |
The Englishman
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| Al Lettieri | ... |
Miller
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Leopoldo Trieste | ... |
Marcovic
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Amerigo Tot | ... |
Partisan
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Robert Sacchi | ... |
The Bogeyman
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Giulio Donnini | ... |
Typing Pool Manager
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Joe Zammit Cordina | ... |
The Beautiful Thing
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Luciano Pigozzi | ... |
Clairvoyant
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Maria Cumani Quasimodo | ... |
Office Manageress
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Liù Bosisio | ... |
1st Typist
(as Liu Bosisio)
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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 10,000 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 hit man, 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 himself while interacting with a variety of idiosyncratic characters including an ersatz princess, a henpecked clairvoyant, and a cross-dressing hit man. Written by G. Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
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Pulp means paperback books and pulverized bodies. Mickey King writes pulp, lives pulp and very soon could be pulp. See more »Parents Guide:
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November 1972 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Memoirs of a Ghostwriter See more »Filming Locations:
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Princess Betty Cippola: I don't stop at babies.
Mickey King: Are you trying to canvas me, princess?
Princess Betty Cippola: [laughs] I can always use a floating voter.
Mickey King: But I don't have a title.
Princess Betty Cippola: King's good enough. Come up to my castle sometime. This weekend's fine with me.
Liz Adams: [cattily] Betty, What special qualities do you need to be a princess?
Princess Betty Cippola: Only one - I'm very good in bed.
Preston Gilbert: So I've been told.
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The original title was "Memoirs of a Ghostwriter". See more »Quotes
Mickey King: You like being the wife of a politician, kissing babies and all that bit?Princess Betty Cippola: I don't stop at babies.
Mickey King: Are you trying to canvas me, princess?
Princess Betty Cippola: [laughs] I can always use a floating voter.
Mickey King: But I don't have a title.
Princess Betty Cippola: King's good enough. Come up to my castle sometime. This weekend's fine with me.
Liz Adams: [cattily] Betty, What special qualities do you need to be a princess?
Princess Betty Cippola: Only one - I'm very good in bed.
Preston Gilbert: So I've been told.
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Great film that doesn't take itself too seriously. For me, the parts played by Dennis Price and Lionel Stander kind of steal the show. Narrated in the first person throughout, if I remember rightly, I guess it could also have been called "An Innocent Abroad" or something similar, as Micheal Caine finds himself "up against it" and completely out of his depth in comfortable surroundings he feels uncomfortable in as violence hovers just beneath the surface. So, for those reasons it's a bit like "Get Carter", only this time around there's no personal crusade he's on; he's just a writer of pulp fiction out for what he can get from an ageing Hollywood actor (played by Mickey Rooney) who wants him to ghost-write his autobiography. I suppose this film is a bit like "Chinatown" in some respects as it deals with the futility of attempting to tackle corruption on a grand scale - only unlike the Polanski movie, it never won any awards because it never really took itself too seriously. How can one take Caine as a tough, gritty Londoner, when he swans around Malta in a white suite and sunglasses - smoking through a cigarette holder like a Cockney Noel Coward?