GET CARTER
by Mike Hodges
synopsis
A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld, leading, he hopes, to the man who ordered his brother killed. Because of his ruthlessness, Carter exhibits all the unstopability of the cyborg in The Terminator (1984), or Walker in Point Blank (1967), and he and the other characters in this movie are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence.
original title: | Get Carter |
country: | United Kingdom |
year: | 1971 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Mike Hodges |
film run: | 112' |
release date: | UK 07/03/1971, IT 07/04/1971, SE 12/07/1971, DE 06/08/1971, FI 06/08/1971, GR 12/08/1971, AT 08/1971, DK 01/10/1971, FR 03/11/1971, NO 18/11/1971, PT 04/02/1972, TR 03/04/1974, ES 14/02/1977 |
screenplay: | Mike Hodges |
cast: | Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland |
cinematography by: | Wolfgang Suschitzky |
film editing: | John Trumper |
art director: | Assheton Gorton |
costumes designer: | Evangeline Harrison |
producer: | Michael Klinger |