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Get Carter (1971)

R Feb 03, 1971 Crime, Thriller 1h 52m
User Score
70%
520 votes
Internet Movie Database
73%
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Metacritic
8000%

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

Overview

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's 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.

Mike Hodges
Writer
Ted Lewis
Writer

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GET CARTER Theatrical Trailer [1971]
GET CARTER Theatrical Trailer [1971]
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Jah Wobble on Get Carter | BFI Q&A
Jah Wobble on Get Carter | BFI Q&A
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2022 Re-Release Trailer
2022 Re-Release Trailer
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Original Theatrical Trailer
Original Theatrical Trailer
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A review by John Chard
Written on January 4, 2015

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 doom.

Jack Carter as created by Caine and Hodges is the quintessential film noir anti-hero. He smokes French cigarettes and reads Raymond Chandler, there is no hiding the respect and homages to c...

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on June 2, 2022

Michael Caine is "Jack Carter" - a gangster who heads from London to Newcastle in England's north east to bury his brother "Frank". On the face of it, he was killed in a car accident after taking a dram or two too many. Thing is, though, "Carter" knows that his brother was no whisky drinker - and so smells a rat. Soon he is embroiled again in the local gangland antics in which he grew up, and on the trail of the truth and the perpetrators. To be honest, I don't think this is Caine's finest work - he is distinctly wooden for much of it; even when naked pointing a shotgun at two men (George Sewell and Tony Beckley) who caught him in flagrante delicto with Rosemarie Dunham's "Edna". That said, though, Mike Hodges captures well the gritty and threatening environment in which the story is set; ...

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