Michael King is a seedy writer of sleazy pulp genre novels under a half dozen sensational pseudonyms whose ambition is to dictate 10,000 words per minute to stenographers a la Earle Stanley Gardner. 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 hit man, 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 hit man.

Starring:

Al Lettieri, Amerigo Tot, Ave Ninchi, Cristina Gaioni, Cyrus Elias, Dennis Price, Ermelinda De Felice, Giulio Donnini, Janet Agren, Leopoldo Trieste, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Louise Lambert, Luciano Pigozzi, Maria Cumani Quasimodo, Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Nadia Cassini, Robert Sacchi

Genre:

Crime, Drama, Thriller