Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790750712 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790750716 Label: Warner Bros. Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Warner Bros. Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 03, 2000 Running Time: 112 minutes Sales Rank: 24629 Studio: Warner Bros. Theatrical Release Date: March 18, 1971
Product Description: 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.Running Time: 113 min.System Requirements:Starring: Mike Hodges Ian Hendry Britt Ekland John Osborne and Tony Beckley. Directed By: Michael Caine. Running Time: 112 Min. Color. This film is presented in 'Widescreen' format. Copyright 2000 Warner Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: R UPC: 012569540026
Amazon.com essential video: For Get Carter, the able Michael Caine checked in his likable working-class-bloke persona to play a very unlikable working-class bloke, London gangster Jack Carter. Heading 'up north' to get to the bottom of the recent death of his brother, he runs afoul of the local color, who don't appreciate his meddling. Not content to accept the police report of suicide, Carter begins investigating. He encounters the local mob boss, his sleazy chauffeur with eyes like 'piss holes in the snow,' and the lovely town porn star. The film moves along at a leisurely pace, until Carter finds out the grim truth. The final third of the film has Jack Carter on the vengeance path. No one in this film gets a happy ending. When it's over, you feel as though you need to wipe the soot off yourself and go stand under a sun lamp. The British board of tourism would prefer you didn't watch this film. --Kristian St. Clair
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Rating: - Not to be Missed!
*Get Carter* is a five-star written, acted, produced, directed example of Filmic Art, without doubt. It is a film that couldn't come out of America, so that encourages a certain fascination as well. It is also a source of self-examination for people, such as myself, who have roots in Newcastle.
Newcastle (-upon-Tyne) was a place of coal and iron extraction for centuries. Arguably it gave birth to the Industrial Revolution. It's inhabitants, Geordies they're called, when they weren't mining coal or pounding metal, bore the brunt of warfare with Scotland. The town and hinterland bred people known for two things: hard work and high disease resistance (as my father told it). My grandfather hailed from there.
Watching *Get Carter* reminds me of how reasonable it was that a young man, having survived years of trench warfare in WW1, would take off to London and never look back. And how a generation ... Read More
Rating: - Great thriller for those who like character over techno eye candy
This is an old fashioned movie about a man in the 'trade' who finds that his brothers accident is no accident. Winding through the maze of characters to find his brother's killer, you are exposed to the dark, ugly side of people. Caine is terrific as the anti hero, and his flaws are just as great as the flaws of the people he is tracking. A word of caution. I hate the blockbuster ...spiderman, the mummy, and the like. So if you like them you probably won't like this. There is absolutely no eye candy.
Rating: - Great thriller/drama film with hidden depth.
Michael Caine stars in this very gritty and classic 1971 British gangster film as Jack Carter a London based gangster traveling to Newcastle to find the truth about his brother's death. This was definetely one of Michael Caine's best roles and the film has a great mix of violent thugs and ruthless killers, it was realistic since writer/director Mike Hodges made Michael Caine's character into a ruthless and bloddthirsty killer that is not sympathetic but still likable and the pacing of the film was brilliant using some fantastic cinematography (check out the great scene in the train) where we see the decaying streets of Newcastle which is like a metaphor for decaying values and morals. We get to see Jack Carter kill innocent people, beat up women and torture some villains cause he is surrounded by this madness and these other evil characters and its basically the only way to survive. Once in Newcastle Carter discovers that ... Read More
Rating: - Revenge Consumes Everything In Its Path
A good friend gave me this movie as a present. It was definitely not as a feelgood gesture. His constant comment was, "I have not been able to find a single redeeming quality in Michael Caine's character."
Well, he was almost right. Michael Caine is, honestly, outstanding in the lead role here, playing a mob operative who heads home to Newcastle upon the death of his brother. As a gang figure, he understands the ethos. As a brother, he shows just about the only redemptive emotion when he first sees his brother's dressed corpse, laid out for cremation. He touches his brothers hands.
After that, if he touches anybody, it's either to satisfy his sexual appetite, to advance his relentless campaign for revenge, or to inflict pain for information-gathering or payback.
The violence is simple, continual and at times a little showy. The message of the film is simple: a compulsive desire ... Read More
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- Great thriller/drama film with hidden depth.
