Get Carter

– Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brot..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.50 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 52 Minutes
Release Year:
1971
Get Carter (1971)

Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers 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. Tough gangster film with grim humour.

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Producing Country:
UK
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Get Carter (1971) - Trailer

Release Date:

18 Mar 1971

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Mike Hodges

Writer:

Mike Hodges (screenplay), Ted Lewis (novel)

Main Actors:

Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne

Plot:

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 android in Terminator, or Walker in Point Blank, and he and the other characters in the film are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence.

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WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%