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Get Carter

7.0

Released February 03, 1971Runtime 1h 52min

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

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.

Genres

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios

Production Countries

United Kingdom

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $1,814,462
Revenue: $0
Profit/Loss: $0

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Cast

Michael CaineJack Carter

Ian HendryEric

Britt EklandAnna

John OsborneKinnear

Tony BeckleyPeter

George SewellCon

Geraldine MoffatGlenda

Rosemarie DunhamEdna

Petra MarkhamDoreen

Alun ArmstrongKeith

Bryan MosleyCliff Brumby

Glynn EdwardsAlbert Swift

Bernard HeptonThorpe

Terence RigbyGerald Fletcher

John BindonSid Fletcher

Godfrey QuigleyEddie

Kevin BrennanHarry

Maxwell DeasVicar (uncredited)

Liz McKenzieMrs. Brumby (uncredited)

John HusseyArchitect (uncredited)

Ben ArisArchitect (uncredited)

Kitty AtwoodOld Woman (uncredited)

Denea WildePub Singer (uncredited)

Geraldine ShermanGirl in Café (uncredited)

Joy MerlynWoman in Post Office (uncredited)

Yvonne MikloshWoman in Post Office (uncredited)

Alan HockeyScrapyard Dealer (uncredited)

Karl Howard'J' (uncredited)

Allan SurteesGambler (uncredited)

John QuarmbySecond Gambler (uncredited)

Ellis DaleUndertaker (uncredited)

Alexander MortonHubert (uncredited)

Terence PlummerThorpe's Driver (uncredited)

Doug ArchellDrug Dealer (uncredited)

Dorothy WhiteMargaret (uncredited)

Crew

Mike HodgesDirector

Mike HodgesWriter

Ted LewisWriter

Michael KlingerProducer

Michael CaineProducer

Vicki DeasonProduction Secretary

Del BakerStunts

Rocky TaylorStunts

Roy BuddOriginal Music Composer

Evangeline HarrisonCostume Design

George PartletonMakeup Artist

John TrumperEditor

Roger KingArt Direction

Assheton GortonProduction Design

Wolfgang SuschitzkyDirector of Photography

Christian WanglerSound Recordist

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Reviews

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 br...

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 s...