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Get Carter

  • 19711971
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  • 1h 52m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
35K
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Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971)
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When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
35K
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    • Mike Hodges
    • Mike Hodges(screenplay)
    • Ted Lewis(novel "Jack's Return Home")
  • Stars
    • Michael Caine
    • Ian Hendry
    • Britt Ekland
    • Mike Hodges
    • Mike Hodges(screenplay)
    • Ted Lewis(novel "Jack's Return Home")
  • Stars
    • Michael Caine
    • Ian Hendry
    • Britt Ekland
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 246User reviews
    • 84Critic reviews
    • 80Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award

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    Michael Caine in "Get Carter" 1971
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    Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971)
    Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971)
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    Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971)
    Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971)
    Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, and John Osborne in Get Carter (1971)
    Bryan Mosley in Get Carter (1971)
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    Michael Caine
    Michael Caine
    • Jack Carter
    Ian Hendry
    Ian Hendry
    • Eric Pess
    Britt Ekland
    Britt Ekland
    • Anna
    John Osborne
    • Cyril Kinnear
    Tony Beckley
    Tony Beckley
    • Peter
    George Sewell
    George Sewell
    • John - A Con
    Geraldine Moffat
    Geraldine Moffat
    • Glenda
    • (as Geraldine Moffatt)
    Dorothy White
    • Margaret
    Rosemarie Dunham
    • Edna
    Petra Markham
    • Doreen
    Alun Armstrong
    Alun Armstrong
    • Keith
    Bryan Mosley
    Bryan Mosley
    • Cliff Brumby
    Glynn Edwards
    Glynn Edwards
    • Albert
    Bernard Hepton
    Bernard Hepton
    • Thorpe
    Terence Rigby
    Terence Rigby
    • Gerald Fletcher
    John Bindon
    John Bindon
    • Sid Fletcher
    Godfrey Quigley
    Godfrey Quigley
    • Eddie
    Kevin Brennan
    Kevin Brennan
    • Harry
      • Mike Hodges
      • Mike Hodges(screenplay)
      • Ted Lewis(novel "Jack's Return Home")
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    • Trivia
      Writer and director Mike Hodges was surprised that a star of Michael Caine's stature would want to play Carter. Caine said "One of the reasons I wanted to make that picture was my background. In English movies, gangsters were either stupid or funny. I wanted to show that they're neither. Gangsters are not stupid, and they're certainly not very funny." He identified with Carter as a memory of his working class upbringing, having friends and family members who were involved in crime and felt Carter represented a path his life might have taken under different circumstances: "Carter is the dead-end product of my own environment, my childhood. I know him well. He is the ghost of Michael Caine."
    • Goofs
      Kinnear's LandRover [BYX 564B], driven by Eric Paice throughout most of the movie, is the same vehicle used by the Police when they raid Kinnear's mansion near the end.
    • Quotes

      Cliff Brumby: [blocking Carter's path] Listen, I don't like it when some tough nut comes pushin' his way in and out of my house in the middle of the night! Bloody well tell me who sent you!

      Jack Carter: You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself.

      [Brumby takes a swing at Carter, who grabs his hand, punches him, and then slaps him in the face for good measure]

      Jack Carter: [as he's leaving] Goodnight, Mrs. Brumby.

    • Alternate versions
      Due to deep accents of some characters, the film was partially dubbed for the US release to allow Americans to understand what the characters on screen were saying.
    • Connections
      Featured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Episode #7.1 (1977)
    • Soundtracks
      Lookin' For Someone
      (uncredited)

      Music by Roy Budd

      Lyrics by Jack Fishman

      Sung by Lesley Cline, Mick Gallagher and John Turnbull

    User reviews246

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    7/10
    Violent film about a killer who returns home to investigate a familiar crime and meets sleazy character after another
    An excellent noir cinema produced by Michael Caine and very well directed by Mike Hodges ; an extremely tough movie burdened by cruel murders and seedy characters , based on a novel titled 'Get Carter' by Ted Lewis from 1970 . This brutal , austere crime-thriller focuses a cheerless enforcer Jack Carter (Michael Caine) , a tough , amoral gangster who works as a killer at the town . Magnificent Michael Caine in the title role , he's a hit-man who returns home to investigate his brother's death by some mobsters . Two-fisted Jack in order to revenge his sibling , vows vengeance and spontaneously meets sleazy characters (Ian Hendry, Mosley) in the middle of sinister bands war and running afoul into underworld . When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident , London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate and meets nasty characters who may have been involved . Carter aware the murder of his brother at the hands of a "gang" opponent led by a mobster (John Osborne) . As he decides to travel his natal Newcastle to investigate who is responsible . This city in northern England is portrayed as a cool place , foggy , sordid , rainy , dirty , gray and industrial aspect . Carter starts moving in this ambient , full of sad pubs , horse races , buildings almost in ruins , piers of black water and ravaged aspect postindustrial , which had almost erased from his memory . While we see as his facade of sophisticated and elegant Londoner gentleman with exquisite manners , educated pose, and expensive costumes , begins collapsing , leaving see the lascivious, malleability and cold killer . All of this ends up in the discovery of X film involving his niece what angry Jack Carter enormously . This triggers a wave of violence that sweeps the the underworld lumpen in northern England . Carter keeps the things moving along until ending vendetta. The end of the film is like a summary of the entire story for the scenarios that uses austere bleak and cold environment.

    This interesting film features thrills , raw energy ,adult subject matter with abundant nudism , lots of violence and enlivened by high-powered performances . Plenty of intrigue, atmospheric music , kinky sex ,noisy action and grisly killings until impressive finale vengeance . It is a movie very violent , depressing charismatic , magnificently set , but always strong , with a perfect abstraction of a climate of moral misery to game with the cold environment and ramshackle scenarios well photographed by cameraman Wolfgang Suschitzky . Adequate musical score by Roy Budd with a rare mixture , the dark psychedelia of the movement "Northen Soul" , so fashionable in the proletarian clubs from the north of England of the 70s .

    This British 1971 film "GET CARTER¨ is an original movie and is far superior subsequent 1972 remake , a Black Gangster version titled ¨The hit-man¨, a Blaxploitiation movie regularly directed by George Armitage with Bernie Casie , Pam Grier , Roger E Mosley and Paul Gleason . And remade again (2000) by Stephen Kay , in which Las Vegas avenger goes home to Seattle to learn his brother's death , starred by Silvester Stallone in the title role , Miranda Richardson , Alan Cummings , Mickey Rourke and again Michael Caine at a special appearance .
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      • March 18, 1971 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
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      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Blackhall Rocks Beach, Blackhall Rocks, Hartlepool, County Durham, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
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    • 1 hour 52 minutes
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