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Pulp

Pulp

Write it. Live it. But try not to be it.
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Overview:

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp fiction novels is recruited by a quirky, controversial, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.
Released: 1972-11-01
Duration: 01:35:00
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Mike Hodges
Writer: Mike Hodges
Cast: Leopoldo Trieste, Luciano Pigozzi, Dennis Price, ...
Director: Mike Hodges
Writer: Mike Hodges
Cast: Leopoldo Trieste Luciano Pigozzi Dennis Price Giulio Donnini Mickey Rooney Lionel Stander Robert Sacchi Ermelinda De Felice Maria Cumani Quasimodo Nadia Cassini Michael Caine Al Lettieri Cristina Gaïoni Lizabeth Scott Amerigo Tot Liù Bosisio Janet Ågren Irene Sophie Opperman Iver Gilborn Elaine Olcott Ave Ninchi Werner Hasselmann Louise Lambert Victor Mercieca Cettina Borg Olivier Joe Zammit Cordina
Genre: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery
Description

Writer Mickey King lives in Malta churning out a string of violent, sexually charged hardboiled pulp fiction novels under an array of lewd pen names like "S. Odomy".

King 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, during which time he will make contact with a representative for the celebrity. King meets a man named Miller, who identifies himself as an English professor. King assumes Miller is the mysterious contact—until discovering Miller dead in his bathtub after a hotel room mix-up.

Finally arriving on the island, King meets his subject: Preston Gilbert. A retired movie star, Gilbert is known for portraying gangsters and notorious for hanging out with real-life mobsters off the set. Now suffering from cancer, the pompous, vain Gilbert wants King to immortalize his life story before he dies.

Gilbert is planning a fancy birthday celebration. Among the attendees is Princess Betty Cippola, a man-hungry social climber who seems to have a sordid history with Gilbert. However, after the party is underway and Gilbert has staged a practical joke, Miller returns, now dressed as a Catholic priest. Sensing danger, King flees as Miller opens fire, killing Gilbert. The partygoers assume it's another prank, and applaud as Gilbert dies.

Gilbert's death leaves King with no conclusion to his tale. Playing detective like the heroes of his stories, King pieces together the mystery. He learns that Gilbert's proposed autobiography has alarmed several of the actor's erstwhile associates, who worry their schemes and crimes might be exposed.

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