Pulp (1972)

Director
Mike Hodges

Main cast
Michael Caine; Mickey Rooney; Lionel Stander; Lizabeth Scott; Nadia Cassini

Genres
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Foreign, Mystery, Thriller

Description
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.


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