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Get Carter

Get Carter

1971 Movie
Ratings
7.3 85% 80 Aggregate Rating79.3 Concordance89.6 JustScore A proprietary, opinionated score, blended from IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic. Learn more 77.2
Runtime 1h 52m
Director Mike Hodges
Writer Mike Hodges, Ted Lewis
Cast Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
Genre Action
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Synopsis

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 cyborg in The Terminator (1984), or Walker in Point Blank (1967), and he and the other characters in this movie are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence.

Collection

1 version

Disc

4K UHD

New
Platform Disc
Added on 27 Sep 2026
Edition BFI Edition
Special Edition
Edition contents

Extras

  • 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
  • Introduction by Michael Caine (2022, 3 mins)
  • Audio commentary featuring Mike Hodges, Michael Caine and Wolfgang Suschitzky (2000)
  • Audio commentary featuring Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw
  • Isolated score by Roy Budd
  • Mike Hodges in Conversation (2022, 60 mins): the director discusses his career in this interview recorded at BFI Southbank
  • The Sound of Roy Budd (2022, 17 mins): film music expert Jonny Trunk explores the varied career of Roy Budd, and revisits Budd’s iconic, minimalist score for Get Carter
  • Roy Budd Plays ‘Get Carter’ (1971, 4 mins)
  • BBC Look North location report (1970, 5 mins): surviving footage of a 1971 report on Get Carter’s making, from the BBC’s regional news programme
  • Don’t Trust Boys(2022, 22 mins): actor Petra Markham reflects upon her career on stage and screen, and recalls her role in Get Carter
  • Klinger on Klinger (2022, 24 mins): Tony Klinger recalls and evaluates the career of his father, Michael Klinger, Producer of Get Carter
  • The Ship Hotel - Tyne Main (1967, 33 mins): Philip Trevelyan’s evocative documentary film about a pub on the banks of the River Tyne
  • International trailer (1971)
  • Rerelease trailer (2022)
  • Michael Caine’s message to premiere attendees (1971, 1 min)
  • Script gallery
  • English language with optional descriptive subtitles
  • Audio description track