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Get Carter (1971) -- When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

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Overview

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7.6/10   8,970 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Mike Hodges (screenplay)
Ted Lewis (novel)
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Release Date:
18 March 1971 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
What happens when a professional killer violates the code? Get Carter!
Plot:
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
User Comments:
Better than Godfather more (145 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Caine ... Jack Carter
Ian Hendry ... Eric Paice

Britt Ekland ... Anna
John Osborne ... Cyril Kinnear
Tony Beckley ... Peter the Dutchman
George Sewell ... Con McCarty
Geraldine Moffat ... Glenda (as Geraldine Moffatt)
Dorothy White ... Margaret
Rosemarie Dunham ... Edna
Petra Markham ... Doreen
Alun Armstrong ... Keith
Bryan Mosley ... Cliff Brumby
Glynn Edwards ... Albert Swift
Bernard Hepton ... Thorpe
Terence Rigby ... Gerald Fletcher
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Additional Details

Runtime:
112 min | West Germany:103 min (cut version)
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Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:R21 | West Germany:18 (nf) | Australia:M | Canada:14A (video rating) | Finland:K-18 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (cut) | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Ireland:(Banned) (original rating) | Ireland:18 (re-rating) | UK:X (original rating) (cut)

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Trivia:
First cinema film of Alun Armstrong. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the police raid Kinnear's mansion one of the police vehicles that drives in is strangely the same blue Land Rover that Eric, Peter and Con used in several scenes earlier in the movie. more
Quotes:
Jack Carter: [to Margaret] Take your clothes off. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "ER: Get Carter (#10.13)" (2004) more

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Better than Godfather, 30 December 2004
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Author: bazibazbaz from Netherlands

If there can be anything such as a 'generic genre', then the great British gangster film must be it. But don't blame Get Carter for this, blame Madge's husband, Guy Ritchie. I saw Get Carter again recently and it must be the least dated film from the seventies ever made. This is largely because the situations, characters, settings and even fashions are so slice of life. It's a lot more convincing than a lot of the Sean Penn stuff at the moment, and even hyper-real stuff like Gummo or Julian Donkey Boy. I think this is because there's no exaggeration in Get Carter. It's not shot in some weird hicky town in the middle of nowhere, it's shot in Newcastle, one of the UK's major cities. And Get Carter tells it like it is. It is this no-nonsense style that still makes it look one of the coolest films around. Also, there aren't any heroes, which is a good thing. Well, how many 'heroes' have you met? Carter, though no hero, is a great character, make no mistake about that, and he shows just enough emotion for the audience to identify with him: like when he stumbles across his dead brother's daughter in some seedy porn film, and the whole motivation for his revenge mission in the first place. But he is a cold blooded killer too, hardened by London's gangland, and violence is his main emotional outlet in everything else - sex etc - he's pretty cool. It's not just the killers he's after, it's anyone even associated with it. And he dispatches them with a passion. "I know you didn't kill him!! I know!!" and "Goodbye ----!!" being two memorable sign offs. I really do believe this is a better film than Godfather. Godfather exists in a world most of us will never experience and is one of the best Hollywood films. Get Carter though, exists in our world, and the superb characters, acting and writing make it totally believable - even when Michael Caine walks naked out of the door of his seedy B & B with his shotgun to escort out some local hoods, the most memorable thing you remember about the scene is the previously belligerent moaning old lady neighbour scurrying into her house, terrified. Oh, and Budd's soundtrack is pure sleazy brilliance, well up to the standard of virtually everything else about the film.

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