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Get Carter

Name: Get Carter
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Released: 1971-02-03
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 6.963

★ 7,0 /10 (575 Votes)

1971 EN 112 min

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.

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Release date

03/02/1971

Votes

575

Popularity

3.2

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

Genres

Crime Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

112 min

Budget

$1,814,462

Website

www.getcarterfilm.co.uk

Michael Caine

Jack Carter

Ian Hendry

Eric

Britt Ekland

Anna

John Osborne

Kinnear

Tony Beckley

Peter

George Sewell

Con

Geraldine Moffat

Glenda

Rosemarie Dunham

Edna

Petra Markham

Doreen

Alun Armstrong

Keith

Bryan Mosley

Cliff Brumby

Glynn Edwards

Albert Swift

Bernard Hepton

Thorpe

Terence Rigby

Gerald Fletcher

John Bindon

Sid Fletcher

Godfrey Quigley

Eddie

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Kevin Brennan

Harry

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Maxwell Deas

Vicar (uncredited)

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Liz McKenzie

Mrs. Brumby (uncredited)

John Hussey

Architect (uncredited)

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Ben Aris

Architect (uncredited)

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Kitty Atwood

Old Woman (uncredited)

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Denea Wilde

Pub Singer (uncredited)

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Geraldine Sherman

Girl in Café (uncredited)

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Joy Merlyn

Woman in Post Office (uncredited)

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Yvonne Miklosh

Woman in Post Office (uncredited)

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Alan Hockey

Scrapyard Dealer (uncredited)

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Karl Howard

'J' (uncredited)

Allan Surtees

Gambler (uncredited)

John Quarmby

Second Gambler (uncredited)

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Ellis Dale

Undertaker (uncredited)

Alexander Morton

Hubert (uncredited)

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Terence Plummer

Thorpe's Driver (uncredited)

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Doug Archell

Drug Dealer (uncredited)

Dorothy White

Margaret (uncredited)

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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 o…

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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 Sewe…

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