Pulp is a 1972 British comedy thriller film, directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney and Lizabeth Scott (in her final screen appearance).

[1][2] British writer Mickey King lives in Malta churning out violent, sexually charged pulp fiction novels under an array of lewd pen names such as "S. Odomy".

He discovers that Gilbert was connected to the death of a young woman many years earlier and that other powerful people, including Prince Cippola, were also involved.

In The Monthly Film Bulletin Richard Combs wrote: "Plot, character and pastiche have been built up in a fairly loose and random fashion in this second feature by television director Mike Hodges.

It is a conventional homage rather than a necessary irony, for instance, that invocations of Bogart and Bacall, and a smattering of titles and chat from the upper Chandler bracket, should be mingling with a spoof thriller about a hack writer whose only ambition is to match the output of Erlc Stanley Gardner.

The central theme involving the hiring of a ghostwriter is explored with wit and style, as Hodges deploys his camera cleverly through Maltese locations, and the uncompromising plot makes excellent use of Hollywood icons Mickey Rooney and Lizabeth Scott.