Get Carter (1971)

1971 • 111 minutes

About this movie

When Jack Carter comes to Newcastle to inquire about his brother's mysterious death, racketeers think they can threaten him, rough him up, shoo him away like a fly. Which shows they don't know jack about Carter. Double Academy Award ® winner Michael Caine plays the relentless title character in this gritty neo-noir (Sylvester Stallone stars in a 2000 remake). Caine's Carter is a sharp portrait of cold-blooded precision as he connects the dots of a cover-up that leads to a pornography ring (John Osborne, whose Look Back in Anger launched Britain's "Angry Young Man" era, plays the flesh peddler's ringleader). Revenge is sweet for Carter. But in the hard world of latter-day film noir, sweet is sure to turn suddenly, violently sour.

Ratings and reviews

A classic mafia film where everything seems normal in the beginning until all hell breaks loose and Michael Caine shows what a mafia hitman does for a living. He's brilliant and cool until he becomes a complete monster!!! When the truth comes out!! Still in shock from the ending!

Righteous retribution done with style