An amusing spoof of the film-noir genre from that greyest of hippie years - 1972. I enjoyed Michael Caine's laconic cockney humour and syntax. He plays Mickey King a professional pulp-fiction writer involved in an actual murder. In appearance he sports medium-length wavy auburn-hair and sideburns, a white flared corduroy suit and spectacles with mauve lenses and thick black frames. The Maltese settings and views of Valletta - some anthropological - are evocative. English actor, Dennis Price plays a rude tourist who doesn't suffer fools gladly while Mickey Rooney is an obnoxious diminutive freckled brash exiled US actor with underworld connections called Preston Gilbert and who is the mooted topic of a biography to be written by King. The film features a Bogart look-a-like and Godfather heavy, Italian-American actor, Al Lettieri plus gruff pugnacious cigar-chomping Lionel Stander.
Review of Pulp
