Get Carter

Director: Mike Hodges Mike Hodges

Overview

This action film stars Michael Caine as a powerful British gangster out for blood. His brother has been murdered in Newcastle, prompting Caine to declare a war on other racketeers. Now that he is a loose cannon, Caine must be eliminated, a job that falls to the his brother's assassin.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/04/2011
UPC:	0883316398388
Original Release:	1971
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Archives
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[monaural]
Language:	English
Time:	1:52:00
Sales rank:	19,781

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Alexander Morton	Actor
Rosemarie Dunham	Actor
John Hussey	Actor
Petra Markham	Actor
Geraldine Moffatt	Actor
Bryan Mosley	Actor
Godfrey Quigley	Actor
Geraldine Sherman	Actor

Technical Credits

Hal Wallis	Special Effects
Irene Lamb	Casting
Christian Wangler	Sound/Sound Designer
Michael Klinger	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Featuring a young Michael Caine in one of his best and perhaps least expected performances, Get Carter helped set the standard for contemporary gangster film grit. Adapted for the screen and directed by BBC TV veteran and feature neophyte Mike Hodges, Get Carter's starkly economical style and bleakly seedy Newcastle location provided an appropriate backdrop for Caine's Jack Carter. As a London mobster out for vengeance in his hometown, Caine's ruthlessness overruled any sympathy that could have been gleaned from the familial bonds driving his quest, turning him into a memorably amoral "hero" akin to Lee Marvin's equally brutal seeker in Point Blank (1967). Famed "angry young man" playwright John Osborne is a formidable nemesis as the smooth fat cat Kinnear, while Ian Hendry earned kudos for his performance as slippery chauffeur Eric Paice. Though it was not exactly greeted with open arms by the critics, Get Carter's toughness rejuvenated the genre and it has since come to be considered one of the best British gangster films ever made. Sylvester Stallone's 2000 remake suffers by comparison in every way.