--- title: 'Get Carter (1971)' type: 'film' director: 'Mike Hodges' released: '1971-02-03' runtime_minutes: 107 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Crime' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/get-carter-1971' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067128/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Get Carter (1971) 1971 · R · 107 min · Crime · United Kingdom ## Synopsis 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 vengeance on his mind, he investigates and interrogates, regaining a feel for the city and its hardened-criminal element. ## Credits - **Producer:** [Michael Caine](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-caine), [Michael Klinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-klinger) - **Original Music Composer:** [Roy Budd](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-budd) - **Director:** [Mike Hodges](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-hodges) - **Screenplay:** [Mike Hodges](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-hodges), [Ted Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-lewis) - **Director of Photography:** [Wolfgang Suschitzky](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-suschitzky) - **Editor:** [John Trumper](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-trumper) ## Cast - [Bernard Hepton](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-hepton) - [Geraldine Moffat](https://cinepixo.com/people/geraldine-moffat) - [Britt Ekland](https://cinepixo.com/people/britt-ekland) - [Michael Caine](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-caine) as Jack Carter - [John Osborne](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-osborne) - [Petra Markham](https://cinepixo.com/people/petra-markham) - [Roy Budd](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-budd) - [Ian Hendry](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-hendry) - [Alun Armstrong](https://cinepixo.com/people/alun-armstrong) - [George Sewell](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-sewell) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/get-carter-1971 Film facts: Wikidata (Q511591); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.