Written by James M. Tate / 1/06/2021 / No comments / alun armstrong , british neo noir , british new wave , exploitation , george sewell , godfrey quigley , ian hendry , john bindon , michael caine , mike hodge , petra markham , seventies , thriller , tony beckley
MIKE HODGES DIRECTS A KILLER MICHAEL CAINE IN 'GET CARTER'
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| Title: GET CARTER Year: 1971 Rating: ***** |
The plot of Mike Hodges' GET CARTER is simple enough: London-based gangster Michael Caine as Jack Carter returns to the squalor of Newcastle to find out how his brother died, which was supposedly a drunk driving accident that Jack thinks was murder...
Easy so far, sure, but how he figures out the truth is more complicated than memorizing Shakespeare in Klingon... And in the opening scene he's reading Raymond Chandler, a nod to the kind of Film Noir that GET CARTER embraces by the myriad of last names spouted in a dizzying barrage that needs close paying attention to...
But instead of a discovering the truth mystery/thriller it's a nihilistic avenge the truth exploitation that's said to have started the Second British New Wave, providing the usually charming anti-hero Caine his all-time coldest/coolest role. The women involved he either cares nothing about or is about to treat as callously as the men. The sporadic action is filmed with a 1970's zooming-precision between the voyeuristic documentary-style buildup set against the grungy "crap house" Newcastle landscape — a soulless purgatory where our proverbial shark swims through a maze of piranha (who can only kill if he slows down), making the excessive violence not only common, but commonplace. "Remember," Jack's both told and warned before the opening credits. "They're killers... just like you!"
Michael Caine in GET CARTER with Rosemarie Dunham & George Sewell
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| Michael Caine is Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine is Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine is Jack Carter in GET CARTER with Petra Markham |
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| Petra Markham as Doreen Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Petra Markham as Doreen Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Stanley Kubrick regular Godfrey Quigley in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER w/ Ian Hendry |
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| Grungy locale of Newcastle from GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER w/ Geraldine Moffat |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine and Geraldine Moffat in Get Carter with a LET IT BLEED album |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine in GET CARTER |
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| George Sewell and Tony Beckley in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine pays another visit in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine and Alun Armstrong in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine and Alun Armstrong in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine and Ian Hendry in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine and Ian Hendry in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine and Ian Hendry in GET CARTER |
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| Filming GET CARTER if ever Michael Caine was stoned it was this day |
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| Back when New Tricks old guy Allun Armstrong was a "good lad" for GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER with Geraldine Moffat |
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| Michael Caine as Jack Carter in GET CARTER with Geraldine Moffat |
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| Weak b-plot (Jack's tryst with boss's girl) but Britt Eckland's hot in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine in GET CARTER |
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| Michael Caine is Jack Carter in GET CARTER |
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