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Status: Released

Runtime: 112

Budget: -

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Language: en

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Release Info

  • 1971-03-03
     R

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Content Score: 100

(1971)

7.0/10 (22 votes)

Overview

Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

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What happens when a professional killer violates the code? Get Carter!

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Director: Mike Hodges
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Michael Caine

Michael Caine
as Jack Carter

Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry
as Eric

Britt Ekland

Britt Ekland
as Anna

John Osborne

John Osborne
as Kinnear

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A review by John Chard

When Jack went home!

Get Carter, not just one of the finest exponents of British neo - noir, but one of the greatest British films ever, period. Michael Caine stars as Jack Carter, a tough no nonsense operator in the London underworld who returns to his home town of Newcastle Upon Tyne when his brother turns up dead.

Directed and adapted to screenplay by Mike Hodges from Ted Lewis' novel Jack's Return Home, Get Carter is a bleakly atmospheric masterwork that takes the period setting of the time and blends harsh realism with film noir sensibilities and filters it through an uncut prism of... read the rest.