- Pulp (film)
Infobox Film | name = Pulp
image_size = 175px
caption = original film poster
director =Mike Hodges
producer =Michael Klinger
writer =Jack Pulman
starring =Michael Caine Mickey Rooney Lionel Stander
music =George Martin
cinematography =Ousama Rawi
editing =John Glen
distributor =
released = 1972
runtime = 95 minutes
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budget =
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imdb_id = 0069134"Pulp" is a 1972 British
crime , thriller and comedyfilm , directed byMike Hodges and starringMichael Caine as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels.Plot
King, living in
Rome churning out onenoir book after another, is offered an abnormally large sum to ghostwrite theautobiography 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 playinggangster s and notorious for hanging out with real-life mobsters off the set. Now dying ofcancer , 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.
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