Get Carter (1971) 7.5
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate. Director:Mike Hodges |
|
Watch Trailer 0Share... |
Get Carter (1971) 7.5
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate. Director:Mike Hodges |
|
Watch Trailer 0Share... |
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Michael Caine | ... | ||
Ian Hendry | ... | ||
Britt Ekland | ... |
Anna
|
|
John Osborne | ... | ||
Tony Beckley | ... |
Peter the Dutchman
|
|
George Sewell | ... | ||
Geraldine Moffat | ... |
Glenda
(as Geraldine Moffatt)
|
|
Dorothy White | ... |
Margaret
|
|
Rosemarie Dunham | ... |
Edna
|
|
Petra Markham | ... | ||
Alun Armstrong | ... |
Keith
|
|
Bryan Mosley | ... | ||
Glynn Edwards | ... |
Albert Swift
|
|
Bernard Hepton | ... | ||
Terence Rigby | ... |
A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld, leading, he hopes, to the man who ordered his brother killed. Because of his ruthlessness Carter exhibits all the unstopability of the android in Terminator, or Walker in Point Blank, and he and the other characters in the film are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence. Written by Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>
British gangster classic starring Michael Caine as the eminently quotable, ultimately tough Jack Carter
Hard to believe that a major studio felt the need to remake this British gangster classic, which ranks up there with the likes of The Long Good Friday as one of the finest home grown films of the past 30 years.
Caine is the gangster who goes to Newcastle for his brother's funeral and begins to suspect his death was no accident; cue edgy thrills and violence as he exacts revenge on the folks he believes responsible.
Caine, as in the majority of his signature roles, is superbly armed with a set of eminently quotable one-liners ("You're a big man, but you're out of shape" tops the bill this time), and as emotionally detached and violently ruthless as Point Blank's similarly vengeful Lee Marvin, while director Hodges paints a gritty, bleak picture of the gangster underworld.
Soap fans will be equally intrigued to see Coronation Street's Alf Roberts (aka Bryan Moseley) being tossed off a roof.