Get Carter
by Mike Hodges
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Actor: Britt Ekland, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Michael Caine, Tony BeckleyDirector: Mike Hodges
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Michael Caine
Cinematographer: Wolfgang Suschitzky
Writer: Mike Hodges
Editor: John Trumper
Producer: Michael Klinger
Writer: Ted Lewis
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.66:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Bros.
Movie Reviews of Get Carter
Movie Review: The Great Caine Has Never Been Better
Summary: 5 Stars
Get Carter is one of the best motion pictures of the 1970's and perhaps the greatest British criminal themed film of all time. Michael Caine has never had a better role nor delivered as deceptively intense and deep an acting performance. To propose this when Caine is one of the greatest actors to have lived on the planet is saying a mouthful. Like POINT BLANK (1967) was with the great John Boorman and Lee Marvin co-creating, Mike Hodges and Michael Caine in 1971 created a steely no-apologies masterpiece. The only wonder is that British MGM and American MGM meddling executives at the time allowed the film to be released without destructive compromising cuts for commercialism and what is now called political correctness. The supporting cast is uniformaly dead-on. The perhaps unrecognized co-star of the film is the cold-sobering, gritty, pre-Thatcher English location of Newcastle. Long live Michael Caine and long live the ballsy gentlemen like Jack Carter. Also, for outstanding source material that does Mickey Spillane proud, check out the Jack Carter novels by the late Ted Lewis.
Summary of Get Carter
Michael caine plays the relentless title character an ice-cold efficiently lethal london mobster investigating his brothers death in the seedy newcastle underworld. Special features: subtitles in english and french new digital transfer behind-the-scenes documentary caine is carter & more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/02/2001 Starring: Michael Caine Ian Hendry Run time: 111 minutes Rating: R Director: Mike HodgesFor Get Carter, the able Michael Caine checked in his likable working-class-bloke persona to play a very unlikable working-class bloke, London gangster Jack Carter. Heading "up north" to get to the bottom of the recent death of his brother, he runs afoul of the local color, who don't appreciate his meddling. Not content to accept the police report of suicide, Carter begins investigating. He encounters the local mob boss, his sleazy chauffeur with eyes like "piss holes in the snow," and the lovely town porn star. The film moves along at a leisurely pace, until Carter finds out the grim truth. The final third of the film has Jack Carter on the vengeance path. No one in this film gets a happy ending. When it's over, you feel as though you need to wipe the soot off yourself and go stand under a sun lamp. The British board of tourism would prefer you didn't watch this film. --Kristian St. Clair
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