IMDb: 6.0 1972 95 min Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller UK Mike Hodges Michael Caine , Mickey Rooney , Lionel Stander , Lizabeth Scott
Pulp: Michael King is a seedy writer of sleazy pulp genre novels under a half-dozen sensational pseudonyms whose ambition is to dictate ten thousand 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 hitman, Gilbert has a large entourage of eccentrics and remains an inveterate practical joker.
