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1971
Get Carter is a 1971 British gangster thriller film, written and directed by Mike Hodges in his directorial debut and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland and Bryan Mosley. Based on Ted Lewis's 1970 novel Jack's Return Home, the film follows Jack Carter (Caine), a London gangster who returns to his hometown in North East England after his brother's death. Suspecting foul play, and with…
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Judging by the recent Hollywood remakes, the late 1960s and early 1970s are supposed to be the last golden era of moviemaking. However, few films made in that period have the honour of being remade not once but twice. One of them is *Get Carter*, a 1971 British thriller directed by Mike Hodges. Only a year after its premiere it was remade as the blaxploitation thriller *Hit Man*, and in 2000 it was remade again, thi…More
