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Get Carter Director: Mike Hodges Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne

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  • DVD Release Date: 10/03/2000
  • Original Release: 1971
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 17,628

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Feature-length audio commetary by Michael Caine, director Mike Hodges, and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky; Music-only track; Notes on Michael Caine; Two theatrical trailers

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Side #1 -- Widescreen Version
0. Scene Selections
1. Think again, Jack. [3:04]
2. Credits in transit. [3:38]
3. Brother in a box. [5:55]
4. Frank's funeral. [4:56]
5. Edgy questions. [3:37]
6. With Eric at the races. [3:56]
7. Country house call. [8:04]
8. Don't trust boys. [4:24]
9. Long-distance Sexy. [3:19]
10. Not the ticket. [3:41]
11. Interrogation. [3:20]
12. Brumby's house. [3:11]
13. We won't tell. [2:19]
14. Interrupted. [4:22]
15. Back door, left door. [1:52]
16. "Get yourself a course in karate." [1:53]
17. The family villain. [3:03]
18. Name without a reason. [4:26]
19. Love in gear. [3:37]
20. Teacher's Pet. [3:24]
21. Filling in a name. [2:17]
22. How Frank died. [5:04]
23. Ferry reception. [4:59]
24. Brumby's fall. [2:13]
25. Stalking Margaret. [3:40]
26. A simple deal. [2:17]
27. The woods; an arrangement. [2:58]
28. Death in the country. [3:54]
29. Seaside chase. [3:20]
30. Drink up and die. [2:49]
31. Got Carter. [1:07]
32. Cast list. [:37]

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One of British cinema's seminal postmodern gangster films, 1971's Get Carter reflects perfectly the anti-establishment, sexually relaxed mood of the times while simultaneously harking back to the seedy toughness of Depression-era mob movies and WWII-vintage film noir classics. London-based "enforcer" Jack Carter (Michael Caine, in one of his very best performances) returns to his seedy hometown, Newcastle, to make funeral arrangements for his brother, who has died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. Believing his sibling to have been murdered, Carter noses around Newcastle's underworld and eventually trails sleazy chauffeur Eric Paice (Ian Hendry) to local crime lord Kinnear (John Osbourne), whom Carter suspects of putting his brother "on the spot." Warned to return to London without asking questions, the big-city hit man remains to wreak revenge and assuage his own guilt. In his feature-film debut, writer-director Mike Hodges portrays the seamy underworld milieu with remarkable fidelity and courageously presents a protagonist with virtually no redeeming qualities. Jack Carter is ruthless and amoral, blithely bedding the crime lord's mistress (Geraldine Moffatt) while plotting his revenge. The film is peppered with staccato bursts of savage violence that are all the more effective for their brutality and unpredictability, and Carter's casual approach to bloodletting remains genuinely shocking more than 30 years after the movie was released. Hodges pulls no punches, but he manages to command viewer interest at all times even though his principal characters are uniformly unpleasant and irredeemable. Get Carter anticipated the nihilistic crime dramas of the '80s and '90s, but very few of those had the impact that this perversely enjoyable little thriller continues to have, decades later. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble

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July 04, 2009: For about 15 years beginning with this film and fading with "The Long Good Friday", Britain made a streak of gritty crime dramas surpassing all American efforts. Heavy on character actors, clipped surrealistic dialogue nearly always set in decayed urban collapse, your basic crime dramas usually looks the same. Get Carter was voted The best British movie ever made and BAFTA lists it very high -around 16. It is actually a festival of great British character actors acting nasty. What is remarkable is a growing sense of ominous frightening suspense without action lasting nearly two thirds of the film - all acting and setup. That alone is the main achievement - once the shooting starts it is cathartic but old hat.