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Get Carter
“What happens when a professional killer violates the code? Get Carter!”
19711h 52mDir Mike Hodges7.0TMDB
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.
Top Cast
35 total
Michael Caine
as Jack Carter
Ian Hendry
as Eric
Britt Ekland
as Anna
John Osborne
as Kinnear
Tony Beckley
as Peter
George Sewell
as Con
Geraldine Moffat
as Glenda
Rosemarie Dunham
as Edna
The scene we cut
Big man, bad shape
"You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job." Jack Carter at two in the morning.
The man Carter humiliates here is played by Bryan Mosley, who most British viewers knew as Alf Roberts from Coronation Street. Caine based Carter's stillness on real London hard men he grew up around, and refused to let the character crack a single joke.
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