Pulp (1972, United Kingdom)
family secretsmysterious eventsmystery movies
Running time: 90 minutes
Language: English
Successful pulp fiction writer (if there is such thing as a success in that line of work) Mickey King, currently residing in Malta, is given an unusual offer: to write a biography as a ghostwriter. A man, who looks like an old-fashioned mafia thug, offers him good money for writing a biography, but won’t tell King who exactly the client is. King is not that keen to accept, but at the same time, the offer is too good to refuse. He is given the instructions to join the tour of an island, during which someone will contact him with further details. The man who meets him on the bus acts strangely and during the stay in the hotel, King finds him dead in the bathtub after they swapped the rooms. King begins to feel like a character in one of his own novels and tries to figure out what exactly is going on around him and who is after him.
A British thriller, with elements of comedy (and I don’t mean Michael Caine’s glasses), which takes place in sunny Malta, where everything appears to be lazy and quiet. At least until someone is killed. A pulp fiction writer relives the story that could take place in his novels and uses his cynical mind to get behind the lies that he is told. It is perhaps not a remarkable movie, especially in a filmography of someone like Michael Caine, but it is somehow intriguing and a bit exotic to see a detective story set somewhere else than a cliché of a noisy big city.
Do you like unsolved mysteries?
Our rating |
7.2 / 10 |
Movie value |
7 / 10 |
Realism factor |
4 / 5 |
Adventure factor |
3 / 5 |
Story complexity |
4 / 5 |
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Cast of Pulp
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as Mickey King | |
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as Ben Dinuccio | |
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as Preston Gilbert | |
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as Liz | |
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as The Englishman | |
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as Betty Cippola | |
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as Miller | |
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as Marcovic |
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