When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Michael Caine | ... | Jack Carter | |
| Ian Hendry | ... | Eric Paice | |
| Britt Ekland | ... | Anna | |
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John Osborne | ... | Cyril Kinnear |
| Tony Beckley | ... | Peter the Dutchman | |
| George Sewell | ... | Con McCarty | |
| Geraldine Moffat | ... | Glenda (as Geraldine Moffatt) | |
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Dorothy White | ... | Margaret |
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Rosemarie Dunham | ... | Edna |
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Petra Markham | ... | Doreen Carter |
| Alun Armstrong | ... | Keith | |
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Bryan Mosley | ... | Cliff Brumby |
| Glynn Edwards | ... | Albert Swift | |
| Bernard Hepton | ... | Thorpe | |
| Terence Rigby | ... | Gerald Fletcher | |
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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. Written by Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>
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gangster | newcastle upon tyne | death of brother | hitman | revenge |Taglines:
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18 March 1971 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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£750,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Gerald Fletcher: Bare ass naked with his socks still on?
Sid Fletcher: Yeah, they do it like that - up North.
Gerald Fletcher: What for? For protective purposes?
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Newcastle was as the setting selected after Mike Hodge's first choice of Hull proved to be unsuitable. See more »Goofs
On more than one occasion but especially as she leaves the bingo hall to walk home, Margaret's shoes keep changing. They vary between beige mules and black patent sling-backs. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Gerald Fletcher: Bare ass naked with his socks still on?
Sid Fletcher: Yeah, they do it like that - up North.
Gerald Fletcher: What for? For protective purposes?
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Due to deep accents of some characters, the film was partially dubbed for the US release to allow Americans to understand what the characters on screen were saying. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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British gangster classic starring Michael Caine as the eminently quotable, ultimately tough Jack Carter
Hard to believe that a major studio felt the need to remake this British gangster classic, which ranks up there with the likes of The Long Good Friday as one of the finest home grown films of the past 30 years.
Caine is the gangster who goes to Newcastle for his brother's funeral and begins to suspect his death was no accident; cue edgy thrills and violence as he exacts revenge on the folks he believes responsible.
Caine, as in the majority of his signature roles, is superbly armed with a set of eminently quotable one-liners ("You're a big man, but you're out of shape" tops the bill this time), and as emotionally detached and violently ruthless as Point Blank's similarly vengeful Lee Marvin, while director Hodges paints a gritty, bleak picture of the gangster underworld.
Soap fans will be equally intrigued to see Coronation Street's Alf Roberts (aka Bryan Moseley) being tossed off a roof.