Get Carter

Get Carter (1971)

Timing: 1:52 (112 min)

7/10
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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

1971-02-03

Country

United Kingdom

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios

Genre

Crime, Thriller

Budget

$1 814 462

Revenue

$0

Website

https://www.getcarterfilm.co.uk/

Director

Mike Hodges

Actors

Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Tony Beckley, George Sewell, Geraldine Moffat, Rosemarie Dunham, Petra Markham, Alun Armstrong
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Mike Hodges, Ted Lewis

Producer

Michael Caine, Michael Klinger

Operator

Wolfgang Suschitzky

Composer

Roy Budd

Artist

Audition

Editing

John Trumper
All team (14)

• Kinner was played by playwright John Osborne (1929-1994). Before filming, Osborne had never held a deck of cards in his life, so he had to be coached for the scene at the poker table.
• The poker scene turned out to be the most difficult. Throughout it, four important conversations take place, explaining some plot twists, and the scene also introduces two characters to the audience – Kinner and Glenda. There were also certain difficulties with the light coming through the windows, as well as with the sound. Director Mike Hodges later admitted that this scene should have been rehearsed more thoroughly.
• In the opening scenes, Michael Caine's character reads the novel "The Big Sleep" (1940) by American writer and detective author Raymond Chandler (1888-1959).
• In South Africa, the scene of phone sex with Britt Ekland was cut by the censors, so the actress’s role, already small, became even tinier. However, her name was not removed from the posters. Many viewers in that country were surprised that the actress whose name they read on the poster barely appeared on screen.
• During the filming of the scene in which Carter throws Bramby from the upper level of a multi-story parking garage, Mike Hodges used four cameras. One filmed the fight between the characters on the stairs up close, another from the bottom of the stairs, the third showed the fall of a mannequin, and the fourth – Bramby’s body on the roof of the car where he landed.