Pulp
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Nadia Cassini Director: Mike Hodges Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT Cinematographer: Ousama Rawi Writer: Mike Hodges Editor: John Glen DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.78:1 Running Time: 95 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-04-17 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Pulp
Movie Review: Unknown, underrated
Summary: 4 Stars
There are most likely many Michael Caine aficionados out there who may be familiar with this movie, but I was not. I am, of course, familiar with the previous outing by this same team (Producer Michael Klinger and Writer-Director Mike Hodges), Get Carter. While Get Carter was the prototypical gritty British crime drama, this film takes things in another direction and becomes a flat-out black comedy. True to Caine's character's profession as a writer of amoral, violent, sexually charged pulp fiction, the film likewise takes its characters on a similar meandering journey. Caine is near-brilliant as a particular type of British tough-guy. He comes off as all charm and international flair, until he gets into a conversation that bores him, at which point he often becomes testy and down-right nasty, but with a smile and a low-key attitude. And Mickey Rooney is amazing as, what else, a spoiled former Hollywood big-shot. Think James Cagney, but with George Raft's real-life mob connections. Rounding out the cast are Hollywood veteran Lionel Stander, film noir star Lizbeth Scott, a pre-Godfather Al Lettieri, Humphrey Bogart lookalike Al Saachi, and Italian actress Nadia Cassini, who is not so much a good actress as she is beautiful to look at. The music is by George Martin and has that perfect blend of style and atmosphere, as does the backdrop of the whole affair, the isle of Malta. This movie really is a gem, and I am thrilled to have found it.