Had the pleasure of showing one of my younger mates this the other night. To watch the awe on him. A real film with real people. An edge of violence not shown these days. Bleak and unrelenting. Understated and so well written
Excellent little video on an absolute classic. A couple of years ago I went on a locations tour of Newcastle. Well recommended to any fellow Carter fan. Thank you!
Yes, I went to the house where Carter lodged,to the shopping centre which now stands on the site of the multi-storey carpark (both in Gateehead) rhe bridges, down below the Tyne Bridge where Cartercwas picked up in the sports car, and the Long Stairs.
Good round up of a great British film, possibly the finest of its genre. I first saw Get Carter at the cinema on its release in 1971 at the age of seventeen and even then realising I had watched a classic, can clearly remember the deafening silence of the audience as the credits rolled, an almost ghostly hush. As I’ve caught up with this fine movie through the years, it continues to reveal. The hit man at the end with the J gold ring was actually in the same train carriage as Carter at the beginning of the movie. Thus perhaps Carters demise was already planned by his London bosses knowing what he was truely capable of, a fact that the Northern crime syndicate had absolutely no idea what kind of hell was about to unleash on them as Carter took his revenge and his set of skills away from the darkness and into the light. Hopefully the likes of Netflix can get Get Carter and spread the word and find an ever bigger audience.
This has been my favourite film of all time for decades. Absolutely brilliant, superbly stylish but down to earth and believable. A gangster film and a true art film.
Michael Caine was simply excellent in this picture, one of his very best performances. I could not imagine anyone doing a better job than he did on this.
The most interesting thing in Get Carter, is on the train up to Newcastle, his assassin is in the same carriage as Carter, you can see the ring, Carter was a dead man walking before he even got up north.
It is a superb film, and one of my all time favourites. I used to make Carter’s train journey up to Newcastle as a child in the late 70s, so I’ve always the opening sequence very evocative. Roy Budd’s soundtrack music, with the tabla drums is distinctive, and at the end of the film when Carter is left lying on the beach, chilling - it works brilliantly. Years later I studied in Newcastle - it wasn’t quite as run down as portrayed in the film, but certain elements such as the Gateshead flats and car park (nicknamed the Alf Roberts car park), the conveyor from the colliery out to sea, and some of the derelict quayside buildings and terraced houses were still there - this was before Newcastle and Gateshead received large sums of redevelopment funding. A great film - not sure it’s the greatest British film, but it’ll always be one of my favourites - just don’t attempt the Get Carter drinking game!
An absolutely brilliant summarisation of a truly great British film. Scum with Ray Winstone and The Hill with Sean Connery, among a few others, spring to mind.
Excellent and intelligent review, always been held in high esteem by myself, a very powerful and memorable performance by Michael Caine, a classy and classic revenge-thriller that has few-if any-equals. A true classic of the genre, it never ages for me. The film is a nihilistic scream of rage for a crumbling society and its values ; Carter lives by the sword only to die from its unfeeling, double-dealing edge.
All time favourite film. Next time you watch it lookout for the second old fella taking a sup of beer in bar scene at the beginning , he has five fingers instead of four.
Petra Markham only had a few scenes as Doreen Carter, but what happened to her character was the key to everything which happened in the film. She played It brilliantly, especially the scene at the wake: quietly controlled grief exploding into rage at the offending mourner, hurling her drink in his face. Tony Beckley made a memorable flash gangster as Peter the Dutchman, and Ian Hendry gave his all as Eric. Credit also to John Osborne as Cyril Kinnear. A classic.
The first two notes of the theme are recognizable as that of a UK overland train horn tone; clearly the inspiration. Still used to this day on the railways. I hear it quite often, living near the tracks. In my mind, the classic tune automatically follows on.
Still love this film, in all its grittiness and Carter's moral and mental dissolution. It's hard to imagine Carter surviving long, even if he wasn't killed in the film (or as Glenda says it, "Fillum"). His boss would've had him hunted and brought in... sort of like the end of "The Hit," another of my favorite British gangster fillums.
It is a wonderful, wonderful film. The score is mesmerising. The cast is splendid. The script is stripped and honed to perfection. It is a thoroughly engaging piece of cinema, worthy of all the praise thrown at it. The weird and inexplicable flaw - also a funky and seemingly deliberate one - is that Jack is a Londoner. There is no trace of the North East in his speech. He is just Michael Caine. And that seems not to matter. In truth, it doesn't matter. But... It is slightly funky. Nonetheless, a sublime film.
Watched this film well over 100 times & do you know what ? I'm gonna watch it again tonight 22.12.2024 my second favourite film ever , only losing out to the original Italian job
Aestethic is the key in everything: this film is aestethic since beginning to the end: britain is aestethic, every camera picture is perfect, not to mention the music
Pure gold from the beginning to the end: every detail does reach the maximum aestethic and aestatic level: camera, cast, direction, script, locations, cars and of course music (the real starring actress) are the non plus ultra: never levelled, it cant be levelled
Good doc on a classic movie which itself was made on a low budget by a director making his debut on a film with an excellent cast,first saw this 💎 30+. yrs ago and it is one of my all-time favorite movies👍 Auckland New Zealand 2023
Brilliant movie. Everyone in the film is a despicable human being. Best line = "We won't be collecting our fees". Tragically, the U.K. is returning to being this dark and foreboding country where people want to die.
Enjoyed that thanks, got the poster edition on my wall along side its spiritual successor The Limey, do think its one of Stamps better roles (if a little theatrical).
It is a classic, and not just because of our shared surname. But i would like to add to the mix Withnail &I , sexy beast, performance, If...., dead man's shoes , the Ipcress file , all brilliant films
I used to live in the West end of Newcastle in the mid-late 80's when it was like the Bronx. Barely a week would go by without a murder in one of the high-rise blocks in Cruddas Park. I was glad to get back to Washington.
@@TheVidkid67 I love the north east, spent five years in Newcastle and have been connected with it all my life. There’s no way I could move back there now though 😢
I think the thin glass comment in the bar with the clicking of the fingers shows that Carter in a funny way thinks he's better then everyone yet he laughs just like everyone when the singer gets into a fight with another lady. He is ultimately the same as the other Gangsters...even if he thinks he has morality .
The main problem with this film is that it makes absolutely no sense. The central tenet is about Carter returning to his Geordie roots. But Caine's version of Carter is a quintessential Cockney. It might seem like a pedantic detail but actually it totally undermines the truth of almost every scene in the film.
The end of the novel is somewhat ambiguous, it's not clear if Carter survives or not. He''s not the relentless one man killing machine either, he's portrayed in the novel as a lot less competent and more vulnerable. For example in the novel Brumby realises what Carter is about to do and gets away.
Between Carter and the Long Good Friday that bookend the 70s there were virtually no films made in the Uk (excepting Carry Ons, Confessions of, and sitcom adaptations). Carter is a horrible man, far removed from any gangster glamour (Bob Hoskins’ Harold Shand has one foot in legitimate business and a shiny new London emerging in the old docks). There is also a lot of reference to the Poulson scandal that was a a big story in the 60s, it’s all dirt, soot, and monochrome misery.
IPRCESS file is 10 times better and more entertaining. This is Caine doing a cockney version of Charles Bronson. It's a classic alright, but let's keep things into proportion, shall we ? And I agree with following statement: "In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time."
Polls are meaningless as everyone, or at least the vast majority wouldn't have seen all the films qualifying for greatest film. We all have favourites by you can't compare them to those you haven't seen.
many a happy days playing on that beach from a child to a teenager, coming home dirty and hungry. the conveyer was called the aerial flight. some kids rode in it then jumped out before the drop was too high. Dont know if anyone was hurt or killed.
Let's just say it out loud.....Michael Caine is Britain's greatest movie actor. There are a few that come close, but he's the BEST.. .one more thing, if he had been offered the role of James Bond, he would have made it HIS OWN
Had the pleasure of showing one of my younger mates this the other night. To watch the awe on him. A real film with real people. An edge of violence not shown these days.
Bleak and unrelenting. Understated and so well written
I'm not sure it's the best, but it's certainly a brilliant and unforgettable experience.
I’ve watched it probably 20 times. Enjoyed it every time.
Same here
Just the opening kills me, the train, the music, Caine. OMG. Brings tears to my eyes how good it is.
Excellent little video on an absolute classic. A couple of years ago I went on a locations tour of Newcastle. Well recommended to any fellow Carter fan. Thank you!
Hi I want to exactly this, the pub opposite the station and the bridges. Did you find anywhere else?
Yes, I went to the house where Carter lodged,to the shopping centre which now stands on the site of the multi-storey carpark (both in Gateehead) rhe bridges, down below the Tyne Bridge where Cartercwas picked up in the sports car, and the Long Stairs.
@@lewisduckers4614 The pub opposite the station was demolished in 1971 - the year after ‘Get Carter’ was filmed.
Good round up of a great British film, possibly the finest of its genre.
I first saw Get Carter at the cinema on its release in 1971 at the age of seventeen and even then realising I had watched a classic, can clearly remember the deafening silence of the audience as the credits rolled, an almost ghostly hush.
As I’ve caught up with this fine movie through the years, it continues to reveal. The hit man at the end with the J gold ring was actually in the same train carriage as Carter at the beginning of the movie. Thus perhaps Carters demise was already planned by his London bosses knowing what he was truely capable of, a fact that the Northern crime syndicate had absolutely no idea what kind of hell was about to unleash on them as Carter took his revenge and his set of skills away from the darkness and into the light.
Hopefully the likes of Netflix can get Get Carter and spread the word and find an ever bigger audience.
This has been my favourite film of all time for decades. Absolutely brilliant, superbly stylish but down to earth and believable. A gangster film and a true art film.
Michael Caine was simply excellent in this picture, one of his very best performances. I could not imagine anyone doing a better job than he did on this.
Best gangster film ever. Understated, gritty, truly English. Great actors. Superb.
The most interesting thing in Get Carter, is on the train up to Newcastle, his assassin is in the same carriage as Carter, you can see the ring, Carter was a dead man walking before he even got up north.
It is a superb film, and one of my all time favourites. I used to make Carter’s train journey up to Newcastle as a child in the late 70s, so I’ve always the opening sequence very evocative. Roy Budd’s soundtrack music, with the tabla drums is distinctive, and at the end of the film when Carter is left lying on the beach, chilling - it works brilliantly. Years later I studied in Newcastle - it wasn’t quite as run down as portrayed in the film, but certain elements such as the Gateshead flats and car park (nicknamed the Alf Roberts car park), the conveyor from the colliery out to sea, and some of the derelict quayside buildings and terraced houses were still there - this was before Newcastle and Gateshead received large sums of redevelopment funding. A great film - not sure it’s the greatest British film, but it’ll always be one of my favourites - just don’t attempt the Get Carter drinking game!
Love the total swing in tone after he sees the porno. Goes from a cheeky chappy lovable gangster to a cold blooded killer on a warpath.
An absolutely brilliant summarisation of a truly great British film. Scum with Ray Winstone and The Hill with Sean Connery, among a few others, spring to mind.
A superb film never tire of watching it.
World master class acting from Michael caine
Excellent and intelligent review, always been held in high esteem by myself, a very powerful and memorable performance by Michael Caine, a classy and classic revenge-thriller that has few-if any-equals. A true classic of the genre, it never ages for me. The film is a nihilistic scream of rage for a crumbling society and its values ; Carter lives by the sword only to die from its unfeeling, double-dealing edge.
One of the few films where none of the characters had any redeeming features, a great film.
But after watching it I felt I’d been washed in acid
Truly a great film
All time favourite film. Next time you watch it lookout for the second old fella taking a sup of beer in bar scene at the beginning , he has five fingers instead of four.
Petra Markham only had a few scenes as Doreen Carter, but what happened to her character was the key to everything which happened in the film. She played It brilliantly, especially the scene at the wake: quietly controlled grief exploding into rage at the offending mourner, hurling her drink in his face.
Tony Beckley made a memorable flash gangster as Peter the Dutchman, and Ian Hendry gave his all as Eric.
Credit also to John Osborne as Cyril Kinnear.
A classic.
The first two notes of the theme are recognizable as that of a UK overland train horn tone; clearly the inspiration. Still used to this day on the railways. I hear it quite often, living near the tracks. In my mind, the classic tune automatically follows on.
I love the touch at the start of the film on the train which you don't notice on first viewing. His fate was already sealed.
How so?
@@fasthracing Farewell my Lovely.....
Guess thats a line at the start?@@simonhandy962
@@fasthracing The other bloke in the carriage
@@fasthracingthe man opposite in the train carriage is the hit man who kills him
Still love this film, in all its grittiness and Carter's moral and mental dissolution.
It's hard to imagine Carter surviving long, even if he wasn't killed in the film (or as Glenda says it, "Fillum"). His boss would've had him hunted and brought in... sort of like the end of "The Hit," another of my favorite British gangster fillums.
"Carter takes a train" 💎🎼💎
It is a wonderful, wonderful film. The score is mesmerising. The cast is splendid. The script is stripped and honed to perfection.
It is a thoroughly engaging piece of cinema, worthy of all the praise thrown at it.
The weird and inexplicable flaw - also a funky and seemingly deliberate one - is that Jack is a Londoner. There is no trace of the North East in his speech. He is just Michael Caine.
And that seems not to matter.
In truth, it doesn't matter.
But... It is slightly funky.
Nonetheless, a sublime film.
the past is another country, great film
Watched this film well over 100 times & do you know what ? I'm gonna watch it again tonight 22.12.2024 my second favourite film ever , only losing out to the original Italian job
Best British film ever - Get Carter and The Wicker Man. I can't separate them.
Aestethic is the key in everything: this film is aestethic since beginning to the end: britain is aestethic, every camera picture is perfect, not to mention the music
remember seeing the spoil tubs when i used to go hangliding on the coast cliffs at blackhall
Pure gold from the beginning to the end: every detail does reach the maximum aestethic and aestatic level: camera, cast, direction, script, locations, cars and of course music (the real starring actress) are the non plus ultra: never levelled, it cant be levelled
Magnifique.
Great film top shelf cain is excellent
I only came across your video by chance, I’m going to rewatch the whole film now! Thanks
Good doc on a classic movie which itself was made on a low budget by a director making his debut on a film with an excellent cast,first saw this 💎 30+. yrs ago and it is one of my all-time favorite movies👍 Auckland New Zealand 2023
Geraldine Moffat, the girl in the Sunbeam, is the mother of Sam and Dan Houser, founders of Rockstar Games, creators of Grand Theft Auto.
Think she also played Trevor's mother in GTA V.
Great review of one my top 5 films of all time.👍
Thank You
Fantastic narration
You'd have to add The Long Good Friday and Sexy Beast to that declaration.
Great video
Cheers
An absolute nugget this movie is .
YES. It is.
Couldnt agree more.
Brilliant movie.
Everyone in the film is a despicable human being.
Best line = "We won't be collecting our fees".
Tragically, the U.K. is returning to being this dark and foreboding country where people want to die.
Enjoyed that thanks, got the poster edition on my wall along side its spiritual successor The Limey, do think its one of Stamps better roles (if a little theatrical).
Great job. Subscribed
My favourite.
I like how you realise the killer is in the.......... Oh I'll not say in case anybody hasn't watched it 😂😂😂
It is a classic, and not just because of our shared surname. But i would like to add to the mix Withnail &I , sexy beast, performance, If...., dead man's shoes , the Ipcress file , all brilliant films
Michael Caine one of the best actors in the world
I read the book jack's return home it was class
As good as it gets 👍🏻
I used to live in the West end of Newcastle in the mid-late 80's when it was like the Bronx. Barely a week would go by without a murder in one of the high-rise blocks in Cruddas Park. I was glad to get back to Washington.
Now it’s like Bangladesh.
@@royfontaine5526 So I've heard. Even the city center is like 'spot the white man' as I went to see Gary Numan in May.
@@TheVidkid67 I love the north east, spent five years in Newcastle and have been connected with it all my life. There’s no way I could move back there now though 😢
@@royfontaine5526 Even Washington now is turning into something different.
Great essay on an absolutely classic film, though I always liked 'The Long Good Friday' just a bit more, when it comes to British crime films...
Class theme music
There are many claims to 'greatest British film ever' but honestly can anything beat Get Carter..........
It's the best portrayal of a criminal in a crime world ... Tho I love the Italian job for different reasons .
Yes...100% The Best British film ever made
One of the most *depressing* films of all time.
I think the thin glass comment in the bar with the clicking of the fingers shows that Carter in a funny way thinks he's better then everyone yet he laughs just like everyone when the singer gets into a fight with another lady. He is ultimately the same as the other Gangsters...even if he thinks he has morality .
...also Casino Royale (2006), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) among the greatest British films...📽
You are joking? You ain't seen much, then!
@@QuoPaperPlane True 🎥
Classic film
The music had much to do with the success, background was also very good, if a little confusing for ourselves who know the area.
Your a big man but your out of condition.i do this for a living best line in a movie ever
Correction!!!!! You're out of shape. With me, it's a full time job!
Although brilliant, i put "The long good Friday' ahead. And also "McVicar" if only for the soundtrack.
Top film
Do you want to go to the toilet, Albert?😂
It was an excellent film, spoilt only by Caine's total inability to speak in other than a cockney accent despite his 'home town' being in Geordieland.
The Geordie accent is virtually impossible to pull off if you're not from the area and actually, I think it would have been ridiculous to even try.
The main problem with this film is that it makes absolutely no sense. The central tenet is about Carter returning to his Geordie roots. But Caine's version of Carter is a quintessential Cockney. It might seem like a pedantic detail but actually it totally undermines the truth of almost every scene in the film.
Yes,he makes no attempt at a Geordie accent,does he?
Maybe just enjoy this classic 🤣
The end of the novel is somewhat ambiguous, it's not clear if Carter survives or not. He''s not the relentless one man killing machine either, he's portrayed in the novel as a lot less competent and more vulnerable. For example in the novel Brumby realises what Carter is about to do and gets away.
Great vid but he does die at the end of the book as well. "Then there was nothing at all" or something like that.
Great film very atmospheric but I found the lot quite difficult to follow.
Oh! You’ve been watching television
Between Carter and the Long Good Friday that bookend the 70s there were virtually no films made in the Uk (excepting Carry Ons, Confessions of, and sitcom adaptations).
Carter is a horrible man, far removed from any gangster glamour (Bob Hoskins’ Harold Shand has one foot in legitimate business and a shiny new London emerging in the old docks).
There is also a lot of reference to the Poulson scandal that was a a big story in the 60s, it’s all dirt, soot, and monochrome misery.
Agreed, but the end is miscalculated.
It's not Performance.
Is it? Eh?
Love the movie but can never understand why Carter has no trace of a North East accent.
Nah ... Withnail - always Withnail and im from Newcastle 😎
Wrong ending.
Lawrence of Arabia says Hi!
I'm sorry but I prefer The Long Good Friday.
Maurice Micklewhite is good but Hoskins usurps this piece of fine work.
Well until now anyway with a new breed of criminal oot
I'd put long good Friday before this but both brilliant
Kind of a dark Bronx Tale ~efforts to make criminals sympathetic
no Performance is...
No it isn't, but...'The Long Good Friday' is.
Britt Ekland gets top billing and she's in 2 scenes and barely speakers
Yeah well, agents and contracts, star name.
@@pigknickers2975and boobies.
This is just 70's grindhouse movie. How is this greatest British film ever? 😅
Because nothing better has come along since.
A good film but the best film ever made in England. That's preposterous nonsense.
Well no
Great film. Worst fight choreography on record - seen more realistic pantomimes.
Ha, not sure about the greatest, definitely one of them though.
Piss holes in snow
IPRCESS file is 10 times better and more entertaining. This is Caine doing a cockney version of Charles Bronson. It's a classic alright, but let's keep things into proportion, shall we ? And I agree with following statement: "In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time."
Polls are meaningless as everyone, or at least the vast majority wouldn't have seen all the films qualifying for greatest film. We all have favourites by you can't compare them to those you haven't seen.
many a happy days playing on that beach from a child to a teenager, coming home dirty and hungry. the conveyer was called the aerial flight. some kids rode in it then jumped out before the drop was too high. Dont know if anyone was hurt or killed.
Let's just say it out loud.....Michael Caine is Britain's greatest movie actor. There are a few that come close, but he's the BEST..
.one more thing, if he had been offered the role of James Bond, he would have made it HIS OWN
Alive or what?
Yes . Possibly ... in its own right . 😮