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Get Carter is a 1971 British gangster film, written and directed by Mike Hodges in his directorial debut and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland and Bryan Mosley. [3] .
Get Carter: Directed by Mike Hodges. With Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne. When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
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- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Mike Hodges
- 1971-03-18
Get Carter is a remake of the 1971 film of the same name, starring Sylvester Stallone as a mob enforcer seeking revenge for his brother's murder. The film was based on a novel by Ted Lewis and directed by Stephen Kay, but received negative reviews and flopped at the box office.
Get Carter: Directed by Stephen Kay. With Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Rhona Mitra. A Las Vegas mob enforcer travels back to his hometown to investigate his brother's mysterious death.
- (37K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Stephen Kay
- 2000-10-06
Jack Carter (Michael Caine) is a cold-blooded London gangster, and not the sort of man you want to cross. When Carter's brother winds up dead, he travels to Newcastle to arrange the...
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- Mike Hodges
- R
- Michael Caine
“Get Carter” is a tense, hard-boiled crime movie that uses Michael Caine, for once, as the sure possessor of all his unconscious authority. Caine has been mucking about in a series of potboilers, undermining his acting reputation along the way, but “Get Carter” shows him as sure, fine and vicious — a good hero for an action movie.
London mobster Jack Carter returns to his home turf in Newcastle to attend his brother Frank's funeral. His bosses in London aren't too keen on the trip, fearing that Carter may cause trouble with local mobsters there. Carter doesn't believe for one minute that his brother died accidentally and is certain it was murder.
