A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Michael Caine
as Mickey King

Mickey Rooney
as Preston Gilbert

Lionel Stander
as Ben Dinuccio

Lizabeth Scott
as Princess Betty Cippola

Nadia Cassini
as Liz Adams

Dennis Price
as The Englishman

Al Lettieri
as Miller

Leopoldo Trieste
as Marcovic

Amerigo Tot
as Partisan

Robert Sacchi
as The Bogeyman
CinemaSerf
Despite an half decent cast, Michael Caine ("King") just can't carry this and after about fifteen minutes, once we have established the premiss, it all just falls into a well trammelled line of mediocrity. He is a sort of penny dreadful style of author, who is offered the opportunity to write the bi...