In Pulp, Michael Caine plays Mickey King, a seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels under a half dozen sensational pseudonyms whose ambition is to dictate 10,000 words per minute to stenographers. 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. After Gilbert is eventually murdered by an apparent priest, King tries to stay alive himself while interacting with a variety of idiosyncratic characters including an ersatz princess, a henpecked clairvoyant, and a cross-dressing hitman.
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