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- Get Carter 50th Anniversary Video Essay
For many years Mike Hodges’ “Get Carter” was considered to be the best British gangster films but over time it had transcended that title to become one of the Best British films of all time as well. For years it was hailed as a cult classic and further added to the making of Michael Caine as cinema icon in the scenery chewing role of Jack Carter. Its influence on British gangster films is clear, but it’s gritty aesthetic and subtle homage to him noir would influence a whole crop of the gritty crime movies in 70s Hollywood cinema as well. Check out the video to find why “Get Carter” still maintains its significance 50 years since it was released. Let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks.
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When he slaps brumby but on the way out remembers his manners and says goodnight in the most polite way to his wife, those nuances make carter his best performance
I`d half agree, i adore him in this but i think i like him in Harry Brown even more.
Michael Caine is a national treasure, a true legend and this movie is one of his best, and easily one the best British movies ever made!
He is, I agree. He is truly one of the greatest actors in motion picture history.
He was my hero, now he likes a COVID vaccine or two, and he wants everyone else to have one too
Interesting twist in the opening scene on the train
Legendary British Gangster film 🎥📽️ for me the best and one of Michael Caine's best performances legendary actor respect 🙏🤝
Great analysis. Saw GC on its release in 71 as a teenager and even then realised I had witnessed a Brit masterpiece. I’ve watched it every now and then through the years and it continually unravels and delivers in spades even though we know the arc of the story. Realised when I saw it last that the hit man with the ring at the finale is actually in the train carriage on the journey up to Newcastle, so perhaps Jack Carter’s demise was already set in stone the moment he travelled North defying his bosses, it was a case of if not how but when.
It occurred to me too that ‘piss holes in the snow’ Eric the chauffeur was probably a character he had known from his schooldays and had never liked even then. There were so many great scenes but that particular one was engrained in the movie with its mix of contempt, dislike, fear, smugness and secrets.
Evidently Caine and Hendry didn’t hit it off together which may have created that extra tension.
Jack murdered six people in his quest for the truth and revenge, and probably was the tip of the iceberg of what he had done up to then, the Newcastle criminal syndicate having no idea of what had arrived on their doorstep as everything he had done down south had been in the shadows now his craft slowly and surely unravelled in the light as vengeance and revenge took over from his controlled thug of before.
Thanks for the great comment. It’s the rich layers that unravel with each viewing that makes Get Carter such a rewarding experience every time I rewatch it. The colliding of Carter’s past and present and his battle with demons and enemies old and new makes it a very unique revenge movie as he fights to clear his conscience. But as you said, it’s a tragedy as he was doomed from the start.
@@MovieBirthdays Thanks, perhaps there are more hidden clues in the film that the director subtly mixed in like the ‘ring’ hit man at the beginning so another great excuse to watch it again. To my knowledge it’s not currently on any streaming service which is a shame because a classic such as this needs to be rediscovered by the X Y and millennium generations.
@@steveoshow4832 I think you’re right, hopefully it will show up on a platform soon. In the meantime I think a new 50th edition bluRay is being released, but that might not appeal to the newer audience that doesn’t seem to be that interested in physical media.
@@MovieBirthdays maybe too as I recall he was popping black pills right from the beginning of the film so perhaps he was very ill and had nothing to lose.. will now check out your channel👍
@@steveoshow4832 I always wondered what the pills were, you may well be right.
Let me know what you think of the rest of the channel.
People may look at the movie as a cult classic. But it's more than that. In my opinion it's one of the best crime movies ever made.
I agree, it’s climbing out of being a cult movie. It seems to be finding a bigger audience as time goes on.
Enjoyed your review. Thanks for sharing
I watched "Get Carter" in 1971 during its first release in Liverpool. I was very impressed by the performance of Michael Cain. It is indeed one of the memorable British movies ever made. I also heard that the producer didn't want Jack to "die" so the story may continue but the director insisted that Jack had to "die"
I didn’t realise he was supposed to live. I think there is a sequel novel as well.
@@MovieBirthdays There is a sequel novel.
Carter had to die. My take on it is that Carter was a sociopath . He had no remorse for Brenda's death , the little girl in the car that was almost flattened by Cliff , there was no reaction when he was told that his girl friend had been cut up by his boss . But , woe betide those who would hurt his family - a reflection of himself.
@@halcyon289 I guess on a scale of what he sees as evil, Carter imagines himself to be more honourable than the company he keeps but ultimately he rules with violence and intimidation in the same way.
Thanks for the comment, I’m yet to read the sequel but I will in the near future.
@@halcyon289 To be fair Carter didn’t realise Brumby was going to land on the Zodiac which apparently killed the driver father of the two (not one) little girls in the back seat but that scene was gratuitous, melodramatic and served no purpose - enough people were killed without dragging innocent civilians into the mix.
@@taffyterrier He didn't care more like. I think the scene is important because it allows the audience to consider what sort of man Carter really is.
Carter is not an anti-hero ; he's a ruthless killer with no regard for his actions.
Of course , all of this is just my opinion !
Very well put togethet. Get Carter is one of the best British film's of all time.
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed the video.
I see a parallel between the journeys of Jack Carter in Get Carter and Nacho Varga in Better Call Saul.
Key difference: Carter started as the hunter and became the hunted.
Varga learned to trade short-term gain for long-term gain. Carter's motive was family honor while Varga's was love for his father who had never chosen short-term gain. Time ran out for both characters.
Thanks for this observation. I’m yet to watch Better Call Saul, but your comment might be the tipping point to get me to start it.
What a great observation. I never thought of this, but totally agree with your theory.
Caine took menace and ruthlessness, then built an amazing persona within the decaying backdrop of the north east. It is a phenomenal film that stands the test of time.
It is a great film and portrays the grimy 70's to perfection, making the story even more dark and menacing. Great video. Thanks.
This is my favourite Michael Caine film and I've had the pleasure of telling him so!! I really like your narrative about the film, it's very thoughtful and well delivered. Excellent job, well done.
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed the video. Where did you meet Michael Caine?
@@MovieBirthdays I met him at the Cheltenham literature festival where he appeared to promote his book "The elephant to Hollywood". It was a bit cheeky of me but I had bought along a 1999 re-release film poster for Get Carter which I managed to get signed. TBH it's one of my prized possessions for obvious reasons but my wife hates it.....!
@@andywhite40 Nice, you did well to get your poster signed. These days I think actors are a lot more reluctant to sign anything so that it doesn’t get flipped on the internet.
A great 70's gangster film that gets forgotten is The Squeeze with Stack Keach and Edward Fox directed by Michael Apted. Superb.
I’ll have to look that one up, it rings a bell. Thanks for the recommendation.
A very in depth and engaging analysis of a great movie. Great stuff, thank you.
Excellent video about THE greatest British film ever.
I saw this film when it first came out and although never liking any kind of violence was riveted to this one. Possibly because of it's authentic portrayal of raw emotion and the quality of casting. So much so that I bought it on VHS tape and still have it.
For all it’s violence, there is a tragedy underneath it all which gives it depth.
Well done. I just happened to catch this film for the first time the other night on TCM. I'd never heard of it, and was completely riveted from the first minutes. It dawned on me that I was watching a British noir masterpiece.
It’s a stone cold classic, a very powerful and cinematic British movie. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the comment.
Brilliant film , all time classic , Caine is superb
Caine was also brilliant in sleuth , to play against Olivier and hold your own , proves what a superb actor he really is
It’s a great performance, both a testament to Caine’s skill and confidence as an actor.
@@MovieBirthdays I also loved him in dirty rotten scoundrels, You can watch him giggle as Steve Martin does his bit … they should’ve done more films together, there was a real chemistry
@@flappospammo I have to say it’s one of my favourite Michael Caine performances and great use of his comedic chops.
Your best video yet. A beloved film, a classic and a titan of British cinema featuring (aside from Connery) not only an icon of British cinema, but arguably THE icon of British cinema. That still of Caine in his suit, holding the shotgun is, disturbingly I might add, just pure cool, and was the reason why I saw this film.
Get Carter is grittily shot and designed. The setting is fille with the grey and dreary outlook of 1970s Northern England. The film literally is about the evil legend coming back to the hell he left behind. Beautifully juaxtaposed against Roy Budd's cool jazzy score, Carter can almost be seen, IMO, the colour coming back to liven things up a bit.
Carter is a man filled with rage and regret, the anger he feels towards the past and its inhabitants, and the regret he feels towards his brother (as beautifully shown when he holds his deceased brother's hand) is a great contrast. Just like he can be warm and regretful one minute, and in the next shot he is doing something either brutal or cynical, as shown when he covers his brother's face, switches off the light and in the next he is using his electric razor and having a shave in the same room where the coffin is.
What I also like about the film is its supposed irrelevance and contradictions. Why does the shot on train focus first on a man with a ring, and not Carter reading his book? Why is Glenda, understanably the glamourous drunken woman, asking Carter whether he knows so and so? Why the the raid on Kinnear's house is all mute? Where is should have been all guns blazing. The film almost tries to dismantle the noir genre of yesteryear and it does so brilliantly.
And then there is Michael Caine, who delivers probably the best performance of his great career. Caine is a revalation as Carter, he is cool, detatched and pretty much playing the cool everyman he made his name with. But it is when he sees Doreen in the porn film that we see what a truly great actor Caine is. The whole scene of him watching the film is almost perfect, the love room that had become grey and drab, the sound of the projector and the light flashing from it and then there is Caine going from cheeky voyeuristic punter, to the regretful bitter man he has tried so hard to bury through violence and cheek. The quiet sob and the tears he sheds are IMO a revalation to not only gangster characterisation, but to masculinity in general. Caine unashamedly shows his feelings, and Carter, through the light emminating from the projector, almost receives an epithany on how his life has harmed others, and the dregs he keeps company with. Not wishing to get too religeous, since I'm an agnostic, but the light from the projector can almost be seen as a baptism, or in Carter's case a baptism by fire, encouraging Carter to go out and seek vengeance, the bright being filled with determination before being extingushed, as Eldon Tyrell says in Blade Runner, "The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long".
Your comments on the past at war with the future is IMO one of the best segments you have presented so far. Could not agree more with this theory, the notion of honour being swept away for profit and power is something that I never contected with this film, and what I like about this theory is that it switches places from the beginning, where Carter was the new going back to the old, and it ends with Carter representing the old against the new philosophy of profit and power.
Get Carter has been classified as a gangster film, but it is very much a noir revenge story. This is a story about a man's quest for vengeance not about the rise and fall of a gangster. In my opinion, the best British gangster film is The Long Good Friday, which really subverted the generic conventions and told a fall story and did so by surprising audiences with its unchareteristic tropes. Like Carter, the Long Good Friday's Harold Shand starts off as a representation of the future, but he is grappling at the past, and in the end he is the past. But unlike Carter, where the enemy are rival gangsters becoming entrepreneur's, Friday shows our 'protagonists' enemy as the very embodiment of hypocrisy... that of the so called freedom fighters fighting for a cause and have turned to organised crime to just make a quick buck.
Cannot wait for your next video.
I’ve always had mixed feelings about Michael Caine, but he’s done so much that he always surprises you with a great performance. I think Nolan has been his salvation in recent times, bringing great pathos to the role of Alfred in particular.
And who kills him in end - his firm or the Northern firm?
@@MovieBirthdays Loved him from day one there's only black and white with Caine, mixed doesn't exist😊
@@IanP1963 I think it’s his firm. The hitman is on the train at the beginning, suggesting he’s been keeping an eye on him all along.
@@IanP1963 👍
What a cracking review !
This film has been one of my favourites since the seventies . The other films you mentioned are also top notch , best regards pal : )
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it.
It wouldn't be the same without the incredible footage of Newcastle. The terrace that Jack's brother's awful home is in was just about to be demolished. Presumably making way for a corruptly made concrete tower block, which presumably has also been flattened by now. Like the multi story car park.
Hodges had spent time doing filming for Mass Observation and had a real eye for capturing city scapes and crowds.
It seems to carry on the themes of the movie itself. A changing world that turns a blind eye to corruption.
@@MovieBirthdays Yes, exactly. Which I'm assuming Hodges was well aware of.
By the early 70s the grifters and grafters had got their hooks into the urban building programmes - which had started with the best of intentions.
There was a severe housing shortage after WW2, and the housing that existed was pretty bad. The house my family lived in during the early 60s had no heating system, but it had been built in the 1700s. My mother in law moved into brand new housing in 1960, and that didn't have heating installed either. But she was over the moon, as she had been living with a crowd of people in a tiny basement room with no plumbing.
These themes of corruption, and in Newcastle were expanded upon in the great 90s series Our Friends in the North, which had Mark Strong, Daniel Craig, and Christopher Ecclestone before they were famous. But also, rather fittingly, Alun Armstrong, who was beaten up so badly in Get Carter.
@@greenman6141 great anecdote, I guess living in brand new homes in the 60s felt like a major upgrade from what had come before. It’s a shame the business interests and profit seem to diminish the desire to make homes give people more than the basics.
@@MovieBirthdays Yes, the plans of the well meaning undermined by greed at so many levels.
The architects designed the flats in the 50s and 60s tower blocks to have larger rooms, higher ceilings, storage.
By the time the drawings got to building site they would have "reduce all sizes by 30%"
I have friends who were architects then, and they all ended up quitting because the corruption was so extreme. One said the minute he walked onto the site he was being offered bribes for everything...okaying bad materials, saying work was completed that hadn't been...things like not even bolting concrete floor pads to outside walls. He was also afraid that if he didn't take bribes he'd be badly badly hurt, as it was essentially organized crime, British style....no drug dealing but lots of geezers in what they thought were flash motors.
@@greenman6141 That’s shocking, but not surprising. Would make a good movie.
One of my favourite movies. And a great analysis of it. Bravo 👏. The BFI 4K restoration is stunning. 👍
Thank you, I’ll be be picking up that myself, it looks very extensive.
One of Caine's very best performances, he was at the top of his form: very intelligent, totally prepared. This is one of the best gangster films England ever produced. Not to be equalled until The Long Good Friday. Just compare it to the Stallone remake or the Bernie Casey remake Hit Man.
Absolutely spot on. 👌
Despite having seen Get Carter many, many times - I only realised recently that the guy Doreen throws the drink over plays Rita's dad in Educating Rita.
I didn’t realise that either.👍
@@MovieBirthdays Yeah, not the greatest revelation ever noticed, lol. Was just surprised that I'd never clocked it before. Looking at the actors IMDB page, seems he was also in A Clockwork Orange. That's quite a good CV to have (had).
@@jossym A good find nonetheless. 👍
Really good, and new insights for me , only thing you missed is at the beginning on the train Carter shares a carriage with his assassin, as if he's already doomed to pay the ultimate price for his redemption
Good spot, I was made aware of that by a few others as well. Carter was doomed from the outset. Glad you enjoyed the video.
VERY TRUE what you say in your last 60 seconds as I once was a 1980s Jack Carter and boy oh boy at 55 years old.. how this uk has changed since year 2000. Great by work by you sir .. well done
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed the video. More change to come, it keeps coming like the waves of sea. Such a great final image.
WOW great. Breakdown of the film.... the most powerful part of the movies when he started watching the film his character basically broke down of any type of perhaps sanity
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video.
So glad I stumbled on this, a gem of a film Get Carter is.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video. Glad you're out there making these
Thanks so much. Working on some new videos, will be up soon.
"J," the sniper, shares the rail car with Carter in that iconic train ride. It took a few viewings to realis/ze that.
Ian Hendry was first picked to play Carter, but settled for second-billing after Caine came aboard. I'm sure it helped fuel the enmity between the two portrayed on the screen. Many Hendry fans still think he would've done better. I'm not sure.
Every moment of this film is golden. And the opening theme is one of my favorites. So many good scenes and lines in there.
Thanks for the sound review and very good print of this powerful film (or as Glenda would say "fillum").
Loved John Osborne's voice, too ("Kinnear").
The sniper is a nice touch, showing that Carter was doomed from the outset.
Also agree about the tension between Hendry and Caine, it must have helped.
Great analysis, thanks for giving that extra depth to one of my favourite films. Love it, especially the last point 👍
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed the video and that I could bring something new to a classic.
Funnily enough my earliest memory of Caine in a movie is him in Kidnapped. I rented the VHS many times as a kid. A not so popular film and one he didn't like apparently.
For me though, it was great. The interesting history, the music, the scenery and the cast even beyond Caine.
I’ll have to check it out. Sounds good.
Amazing video. Thank you. This video enchances the the plot and meaning of the movie for me.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks so much for the great comment.
😊 I like this documentary about gangster film genre.😊 I like the narrator with the British accent
An absolute classic masterpiece, beautifully filmed to depict era atmosphere. M. Caine at his very best! The attempt at a remake years later with Stallone simply sucks.
Thanks for this, lots of great observations brilliantly illustrated
Thanks, glad you liked the video.
Where British Gangster films go, Get Carter is an undisputed classic. I like your analysis of Jack Carter being of the Golden Era of Gangsters who's inherently flawed and is himself a guilty sinner yet unlike the opponents in Newcastle he encounters, he had an ethical centre and boundaries he wouldn't cross in the name of power, profit & decadence. Get Carter really does hammer the message of digging two graves in the quest for revenge. Jack dug one for himself and his brothers assailant.
Get Carter did wonders for Michael Caine's career as a leading man if he wasn't one already. One has to ask, do films like Get Carter which you consider influential to the neo noir genre, ever make you wonder why British made films of today no longer command international respect?
British Cinema has always been a mystery to me. Despite having a great heritage it seems to struggle to cross over. The masters of British Cinema such as Lean, Hitchcock and Chaplin to name but a few will be remembered forever. But the trap has always been that the talented directors usually end up being snapped up by Hollywood and start making American movies. The ones that remain seem to make British films that perhaps are too specific to have universal appeal or rarely seem to push boundaries. In the last two decades it’s hard to name a really influential British film in the same vein as Get Carter. Trainspotting is perhaps the most influential and obviously British Cinema is renowned for period/historical pieces. Directors like Guy Ritchie, Ben Wheatley and Edgar Wright are perhaps the best known directors (outside of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh) but again I’m not sure how influential they are to filmmaking outside of this country.
The most notable director to emerge from Britain is obviously Christopher Nolan, but beyond his debut he’s not really made a British film. It seems like the industry is too small to nurture and then keep talent, but every now and then there is a breakout. But it has been a good while since there’s been an exceptional film from Britain and at this point in time with the dominance of streaming services and superhero movies it seems like it will be even longer until it happens again.
@@MovieBirthdays Over generations when it came to British Cinema it was either gangster films or period dramas that garnered cult status or universal appeal at the time of their release or a decade later when revisited. After the Harry Potter Franchise which was a huge boost in British Cinema, one would expect the UK to breed a new wave of Auteurs & Cinephile's. Hollywood, inspite of how it's faults and operates has and always will be considered the Champions League of TV & Cinema industry. While the UK is like 2nd Division in that department in comparison. Any Actors & Filmakers worth their salt want to play with the big boys & girls. Alot of UK based films look end up going straight to DVD/Blu Ray or Cable/Streaming Sites and never see a cinema screen because of the amateur, unpolished, made for TV, film school quality to them that leaves such movies either open to ridicule or indifference.
@@Senate300 it’s definitely hard to compete with the big budget gloss of Hollywood, there is definitely lack of money for British films but what is even more lacking are ideas. It seems that British films like to repeat what was already successful when usually it is the more unique films that seem to be the most success and crossover. The gangster movie was dead in Britain for a while until Lock Stock came along and spawned a million imitations. Quadrophonia, Withnail and I and even the Full Monty were something all different from each other and have people a reason to go the cinema. They may not be the greatest films of all time but they were at least cinematic and well made which is a surprisingly a rare thing.
@@MovieBirthdays Hollywood is no different in that regard since it elevates the formulaic predictability to an artform. The Superhero Genre is to this generation of indie filmaker what the blockbuster/franchise film was to the New Hollywood in the 80's. A juggernaut destroying all in its path and cleaning house in the box office and streaming revenues.
If you love Get Carter, you'd love The Long Good Friday which came out 9 years later. Along with Mona Lisa & the Crying Game. 3 very different UK Neo Noirs. 2 of them starring the late Bob Hoskins. 2 of them directed by Niel Jordan.
@@Senate300 completely agree, the superhero machine is absorbing everything. Originality in mainstream film is being lost.
I’m a big fan of all three movies you mentioned. I was late to the party with the Long Good Friday but it lived up to expectation - an all time British classic.
Wow. Excellent analysis and review. Can't wait to watch this for myself.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
Great analysis of a great film
Thank you
Spot on analysis, yeah thanks feller.
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Truly brilliant video essay, mate! Thanks fir making it!
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it.
Have this on DVD(with extras,etc)one of my all-time favorite movies,well made with a great cast and a gen depressing "feel" of life in that era shows what can be done on a low budget thanks for the doc much appreciated Auckland New Zealand 2022
Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video.
Great, enjoyed it. Thanks.
that was good ,didn't know the movie I saw 50 odd years ago had so many nuances ,not many people know that
Glad you enjoyed the video, nice punchline in your comment.
1st time viewer. Nice job!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video.
Get Carter is one of my favourite films. I have it on DVD and have watched it several times. The direction and the acting makes it seem so vivid.
Your analysis really adds to the film for me. You have pointed out connections I hadn't spotted and you clearly know your stuff showing comparisons with other films I haven't seen.
That's a very impressive video you've made, Thank you.
And now I'm going to have to pull out the Get Carter DVD again.
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your feedback - I’m glad the video added to your appreciation of the movie. Happy watching.
I'd always watched Get Carter on DVD / TV but saw it at the cinema last night. If you get chance go and see it at the cinema too...it really is a much better experience
@@simonlambert6891 Thanks - I'm sure it is!! I didn't know any cinemas are showing it - I'll have to do some Googling.
@@simonlambert6891 I will do, I think it’s currently been re-released in the uk. Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video.
@@MovieBirthdays One of the consequences of watching it and re-watching it is - I only just realised "J" the hitman at the very end was in the same compartment on the train up to Newcastle at the beginning of the film - I noticed the ring then recognised his face. I don't know what to make of that.
Harry Brown ? Jack Carter as an OAP ...... DONT THROW BLOODY SPEARS AT ME !
Brilliant analysis!
Thanks. Brilliant user name.
Very enjoyable commentary.
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it.
Really enjoyed that narration. Very good.
Well done. Thank you!
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AWESOME, food for thought thank you.
Thanks a lot.
Alfie is one of my faves!
Great breakdown video. Appreciated.
Glad you liked it.
Awesome videos dude, this channel is going to blow up before long I'm sure 👍
Thanks a lot, stay tuned for some good ones on the way.
Great film and analysis. It's funny (or fascinating) that Old England in Get Carter is represented by a violent, brutal mob enforcer.
Indeed, I wonder what film and character will represent the new England.
Very good analysis - thanks!
Glad you enjoyed the video
Saw this in the theater when it was first released. I was young and couldn't fully follow the plot. It was a good movie anyway. Now I'm thinking after watching this glowing review it might be a great movie. I must watch it again, this time with an adult brain.
It’s worth a revisit, it’s aged very well and I always find new details that I hadn’t noticed before.
@@MovieBirthdays
I only saw that movie once, 50 years ago. I bet the second watch will be amazing. I'm a Michael Caine fan. Saw Zulu when it was released.
I recall a lot of nudity in Get Carter. It would have been rated R. I went to see it with my mother. My mother adored Michael Caine. I probably saw that movie despite the rating because mom needed a Michael Caine fix and had to drag me along.
@@nelsonx5326 there are a bits of nudity, at the time what made it stand out was it’s gritty authenticity from the foul language to the brutal violence - it was a nice departure for Caine to play such a brutal role and it paid off.
@@MovieBirthdays
Yeah man, nudity, that chick was hot! The gangsters killed her, put her in the trunk of a car and pushed it into the river. I was heart broken. My first disgusting stalker like crush... wasted so horribly. I wished I could have at least one round with her before they shoved her in the drink.
@@nelsonx5326 lol, yeah a brutal death, but I guess she was playing Carter so she sealed her fate. Just saw your comment on the Rebel Without a Cause video, for some reason CZcams won’t let me reply to it. Usually, it blocks when someone comments repeatedly, maybe post it again later and I can like and reply if that’s ok.
Very enjoyable… my favourite film….thanks, enjoyed it.
My pleasure, thanks for the comment.
Excellent work.
Thanks 👍
I forgot how enigmatic Caine was in some of his earlier work. Love Get Carter and also The Long Good Friday...classic British Gangster films. Loved this take especially the clip from Jaws 4 which made me chuckle. Are Croupier and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead any good?
Get Carter is a stone cold classic and the stuff of legend in Britain, had to tip the hat to the journeyman talent of Caine he’s made some great movies. Croupier and I’ll sleep when I’m dead are both worth a watch. Croupier is really atmospheric and the latter is a good throwback to Get Carter - good performances from Clive Owen in both too.
@@MovieBirthdays Yes Clive reminds me a bit of Caine!
@@IanP1963 Clive Owen is quite a unique tough guy and he’s an unconventional British actor in that he’s represents Everyman characters without being typically posh or a cockney gangster. He’s great in Children of Men, full of cynicism.
I'd recommend Sitting Target with Oliver Reed. Enjoy.
@@thatguyfromcetialphaV thanks, I’ll be sure to check it out.
We don't want you to up the north Jack.
Awesome!
Thanks.
Wow that was deep.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Funny how as an American immediately remember him from Austin Powers.
Another iconic role from Caine in guess.
Brilliant analysis of a brilliant movie
Thank you.
@@MovieBirthdays after last 3 years, one can further relate one's present time to the fading of the known world and whole it's values in allegory described in that last scene. Rational till 2020 vrs irrational everything after
@@zvonimirvidovic1714 The last 3 years feel like lost years, the old world disappeared and as you said we seem to have settled into a new world where nothing feels real.
No mention of "Death Trap"??? Caine was amazing in that and it's an AMAZING picture....also Christopher Reeves best role. FWIW.
To my shame, I’ve not seen it. But it’s made it to the top of my watchlist.
Well done
Thank you.
Well that had me tearing up...
Glad you enjoyed it, Get Carter is such a powerful film.
really great work, i look forward to exploring your other stuff on here
Let me know what you think of my other videos, would love to hear your thoughts.
@@MovieBirthdays great video on the searchers, I would recommend that you get some Sidney Lumet related videos on the channel. Underrated and just as significant as Scorsese to me.
Network, Dog Day Afternoon, and the Pawn Broker are overflowing with significance.
@@omarsiddiqi5262 I love Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon is one of the best movies of the 70s. Will be sure to pay tribute to Lumet soon.
@@MovieBirthdays i also love your choice of films, very gritty and cultish.
A wonderful dissection of the great movie... You read GETTING CARTER, Nick Triplow's book about Ted Lewis, author of JACK's RETURN HOME?
Thanks a lot. I’m yet to read them, but had a few other viewed recommend the books so will definitely get round to it. Thanks for the comment.
His name is Michael Caine. And all he wanted was a word.....
Lol
Excellent multi-level review, though like you, I too have mixed feelings about Michael Caine.
Being prolific has worked in his favour. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Happy Birthday to Sir Michael Caine born on this day in 1933 (14th March)
He's a great actor there's not many of originals left now, unlike on the 40th anniversary 😊
@@IanP1963 Michael Caine’s success speaks for itself regardless of my mixed feelings.
@@MovieBirthdays It does yep !!!!!
@Melt Music I definitely recommend I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Clive Owen, Malcolm Macdowell) which at 2003 may be lumped together with the millennial clutch of Brit Gangsta e.g. Snath, Lock Stock and Smoking Barrels etc - this film is a lot darker, closer to Sexy Beast another great, but dark modern Brit gangster film. I liked the mention of 70s "low rent" gangster films; certainly the Friends of Eddie Coyle, Prime Cut, Night Moves, The Outfit (recommend this underestimated classic) all made within a few years of each other. you need a great leading man and character actor to carry such a tall narrative - Michael Caine is most certainly that - but so Lee Marvin, Robert Duvall, Robert Mitchum, Gene Hackman, Walter Mathau also proved. I would place The French Connection, Dirty Harry & Bullitt next to each other in many ways, and close to this other group, but somehow apart. They also produced fine anti-heroic characters in Popeye Doyle, Frank Bullitt and Hally Callaghan - but this is a slightly different genre, from the same place as the others, but different somehow.
Thanks for the great comment. Nice to to see another person who appreciates the 70s grit of those crime movies, “low rent” is a good way to describe them too it captures the spirit of the sub genre really well.
Sorry guys, I’m a bit late to the party but running simultaneously with get carter was another British gangster classic, ‘villain’ with Richard Burton in the lead role and a smattering of well known Brit actors, although not really a southern version of get carter it did for me give me a taste and flavour of the busy social climate and interactions that were once commonplace at the time and this was portrayed well throughout the film. Get Carter for me was compelling viewing with the same social climate but with the regional variations at play that really worked well in this film, drawing the viewer in to the final scene with jack dead in amongst the detritus of industrial colliery waste. You could be forgiven for thinking that at the beginning of the film once jack is on the train and popping drugs to stay awake while he travels north, he already knows this is only going to end one way. Thanks for your appraisal of this classic film.
Good observation, Villain does feel very similar to Get Carter in its grittiness and no nonsense protagonist, as mentioned in the video there did seem to be a cycle of these murkier crime movies that were a bit rougher around the edges.
Its definitely a film of layers that needs many viewings. Some people say that the Sun newspaper headline that Jack Carters killer 'J' is reading on the train on the way up to Newcastle is also relevant to the plot. It does seem to make sense if it is true, as it implies the possibility of future lurid revelations and so the crime bosses needed to 'clean house' fast, and is that a picture of Cliff Brumby below the headline? Despite being one of the grimmest of crime films no version of this movie that I have ever seen has a single four letter swear word in it, which I don't think was a movie censoring thing, but to do with your theme of an old more honorable era dying along with Jack.
Even better than Our Man Flint
What is the piece of music used during the conclusion? its beautiful.
Hi. It’s called Enrich by Valter Nowak, you can listen to it here czcams.com/video/1h_a0shMfFo/video.html
@@MovieBirthdays Thank you kindly. Just after finishing an University essay in which I delve into Get Carter I found this video, some of the points made are almost identical! Now looking at it I wish I'd have seen the 'Old England' comparison sooner, its brilliant. Wonderful video.
@@horatio655 maybe there’s time for a quick rewrite. It’s a very rich movie with new observations each time I watch it. I hope your essay is well received.
didn't even mention Michael Caine's role in Dressed To Kill?
Chahlie Crokah!
Go on son.... drink up
A great video about one of my favourite films, thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for the comment.
I totally didn’t catch the reference about him having an affair and Doreen potentially being his daughter… where is this in the film?
It’s more implied in the interactions between Jack and his brothers wife, perhaps even the reason Jack left Newcastle after having the affair and not being on good terms with his brother.
Caine Is Carter
I’m creative CZcams channel for movie commentary but Im being blocked. How do you avoid copyright issues?
My videos are purely for educational purposes and pass under fair use as I make reference to the films. I don’t monetise any of my videos, however my videos are flagged by the copyright owners so they monetise my videos. Occasionally my videos are restricted in certain territories depending on the rights management. I hope that helps.
He's such a relentless, heartless villain, one wonders how much he really cared about his brother, or if he indeed cared at all. How much was wounded pride, the inability to let a perceived slight go, no one, and I mean, no one dismisses Jack Carter.
In its way, it's almost Italian mobster in its motivation, not a matter of money, but honour, which we all know is a code for fragile vanity.
The same with the outrage at the child porn film, his outrage seems to be more about her last name, Carter, "its Carter", is more about the insult to himself and his pride, than outrage about child porn. Would he have cared if her last name hadn't been Carter?
Not then a moral crusade, or even a revelation, but Carter being Carter, a egotistical self interested thug, our for vengeance because, just because he can't bare to think of them, all sitting around, laughing, laughing at him.
I really like this interpretation. It gets to the heart of the character driven by power and ego and willing to do anything to protect it. Literally to dying in protect his name in the end. Thanks for the comment.
In the book by Ted Lewis, he doesn't like his brother but feels a sense of duty. Not a bad read, especially if you like the movie.
It’s on my reading list, will get around to it soon.
My cocaine, what a guy!
If Jack Carter was supposed to be revisiting Newcastle, the town in which he grew up, how come he has a cockney accent instead of a jordie accent?
Herr Obest Steiner...Deutsche Fallschimjager Commander vom Der Filme "Der Adler ist Gelandet "...assassinated Winston Churchill!
... would like you to have spoken a little, on the music / soundtrack, ... or is that not important to you, or the film? Thanks for uploading though.
I love Roy Budd’s theme for the film. The score in general is very unnerving and definitely adds to the atmosphere portraying Carter’s unhinged personality.
In general the soundtracks are important to me but I somehow haven’t always focused on it as often as I should. I’ll see if I can work it into future videos.
Not a bad precis of this movie
Thanks, glad you approve.
A true feminist... He used the flat palm not the fist....
I hate the American version of the film you've used here. The original British version has much better dialogue in that opening scene.
Sorry for that, I didn’t realise there were changes until I compared it with my VHS copy.
@@MovieBirthdays my friend.....I think your appraisal is by far the best I've seen and you certainly know your stuff. I'm interested to know what you think of the changes made to cater for the American audience who apparently wouldnt know some of the Cockney slang used in the UK cinema release.
@@fizzer11 it seems to happen I’m occasion, two nations divided by the same language. I think they did a re-dub of Trainspotting for the US and amended Lock Stock as well. I guess it would absurd to use subtitles.
Glad you enjoyed the video, I appreciate your comments.
The 2000 remake was utter garbage...
You're a big man but you're in bad shape, with me it's a fulltime job now behave yourself!
Stallone kinda mucked it up.
It NEEDS to be remade by Guy Ritchie, like Nolan did Batman.
Yeah, the remake was misguided but I’d definitely like to see what Guy Ritchie would do with it. With that said, Wrath of Man felt like his own take on Get Carter. I thought it was a great revenge movie.