- Director: Mike Hodges. Starring: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander and others.
- A washed-up writer of pulp fiction gets entangled in a complex plot involving a dead actor, blackmail, and the Maltese mafia while on an assignment to ghostwrit.
- Visually the film is constructed with far more precision, offering a variety of European city scenes and wealthy estates.
- 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.
- Especially when viewers discover Gilbert’s unpleasant secret, it’s difficult to find much humor in Pulp’s storyline, which is nearly as nihilistic as that of Get Carter.
- Crime, drama, mystery. Director: Mike Hodges. Starring: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander and others. A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky...
- Pulp is a 1972 British comedy thriller film, directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels.
- Pulp is not a very easy film to describe or pigeonhole and is probably why it remains a forgotten about cult classic.
- Michael King is a seedy writer of sleazy pulp genre novels under a half dozen sensational pseudonyms whose ambition is to dictate 10...