Get Carter (1971)
Country: GB
Technical: col 112m
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Michael Caine, John Osborne, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
Synopsis:
A London gangster's brother dies suspiciously and he travels up to Newcastle to find out why, against the orders of his boss.
Review:
Hubris à la Chas in Performance is duly punished, but not before our antihero makes mincemeat of the North-East underworld. Caine plays Carter without letting any glimmer of humanity shine through his mostly impassive exterior, though there is a scene in which he cries watching a stag movie featuring his niece. At the time they thought this was a disgusting little film, and even now it is pretty unremitting in rubbing your nose into the filth and depravity of its milieu. But that's what's so brilliant about it: that MGM would payroll a film like this thirty years later is unthinkable. Hodges even finds time to fit in some local colour, glimpsed twitching curtains and supping pints, amongst the often deserted but otherwise time-capsule intact Newcastle locations.
Country: GB
Technical: col 112m
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Michael Caine, John Osborne, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
Synopsis:
A London gangster's brother dies suspiciously and he travels up to Newcastle to find out why, against the orders of his boss.
Review:
Hubris à la Chas in Performance is duly punished, but not before our antihero makes mincemeat of the North-East underworld. Caine plays Carter without letting any glimmer of humanity shine through his mostly impassive exterior, though there is a scene in which he cries watching a stag movie featuring his niece. At the time they thought this was a disgusting little film, and even now it is pretty unremitting in rubbing your nose into the filth and depravity of its milieu. But that's what's so brilliant about it: that MGM would payroll a film like this thirty years later is unthinkable. Hodges even finds time to fit in some local colour, glimpsed twitching curtains and supping pints, amongst the often deserted but otherwise time-capsule intact Newcastle locations.
Country: GB
Technical: col 112m
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Michael Caine, John Osborne, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
Synopsis:
A London gangster's brother dies suspiciously and he travels up to Newcastle to find out why, against the orders of his boss.
Review:
Hubris à la Chas in Performance is duly punished, but not before our antihero makes mincemeat of the North-East underworld. Caine plays Carter without letting any glimmer of humanity shine through his mostly impassive exterior, though there is a scene in which he cries watching a stag movie featuring his niece. At the time they thought this was a disgusting little film, and even now it is pretty unremitting in rubbing your nose into the filth and depravity of its milieu. But that's what's so brilliant about it: that MGM would payroll a film like this thirty years later is unthinkable. Hodges even finds time to fit in some local colour, glimpsed twitching curtains and supping pints, amongst the often deserted but otherwise time-capsule intact Newcastle locations.