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Get Carter (1971)

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Reviews Counted:21

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Rotten:2

Average Rating:7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A small-time street tough from London finds himself enmeshed in a web of deceit, blackmail, and murder when he investigates the circumstances surrounding the death of his brother in Newcastle. GET... A small-time street tough from London finds himself enmeshed in a web of deceit, blackmail, and murder when he investigates the circumstances surrounding the death of his brother in Newcastle. GET CARTER is a hard-as-nails British crime movie, featuring a brutal performance by Michael Caine that stands as one of his best. The film is based on the novel JACK'S RETURN HOME by Ted Lewis. It was remade for a blaxploitation audience a year later as HIT MAN, and in 2000 Sylvester Stallone starred in a remake, with Michael Caine making an appearance in the film as well. [More]

Starring: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne

Starring: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Tony Beckley, George Sewell, Geraldine Moffatt, Dorothy White, Rosemarie Dunham, Petra Markham, Alun Armstrong, Bryan Mosley, Glynn Edwards, Bernard Hepton, Terence Rigby, John Bindon, Godfrey Quigley, Kevin Brennan, Maxwell Dees, Liz McKenzie, John Hussey, Ben Aris, Kitty Attwood, Denea Wilde, Geraldine Sherman, Yvonne Michaels, Joy Merlyn, Alan Hockey

Director: Mike Hodges

Director: Mike Hodges
Producer: Michael Klinger
Screenwriter: Mike Hodges
Story: Ted Lewis
Composer: Roy Budd

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Mike Hodges is a steely Diebenkorn, dry and dangerous

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Fernando F. Croce
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Its finest triumph may be that it's still more immediate and brutal than almost any of the films that it inspired.

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02/23/08
Cole Smithey
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A classic British crime-thriller that's as mean and uncompromising as its vengeful main character. Caine is in top form.

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02/16/06
Chuck O'Leary
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Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Cínico, cruel e surpreendentemente charmoso, Carter é um dos melhores personagens da longa carreira de Caine – e as locações, os diálogos e a montagem fazem jus a ele.

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11/18/04
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

THIS is the good version of the crime saga.

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