Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Acting
Caine's dead-eyed restraint—never blinks, never begs for sympathy.
Cinematography
Wolfgang Suschitzky shoots Newcastle like a wet grave.
Direction
Hodges lets violence land without glory or redemption.
Director
Mike Hodges
Michael Caine
Jack Carter
Ian Hendry
Eric
Britt Ekland
Anna
John Osborne
Kinnear
Tony Beckley
Peter
George Sewell
Con
Geraldine Moffat
Glenda
Rosemarie Dunham
Edna
Petra Markham
Doreen
Alun Armstrong
Keith
Bryan Mosley
Cliff Brumby
Glynn Edwards
Albert Swift
Bernard Hepton
Thorpe
Terence Rigby
Gerald Fletcher
John Bindon
Sid Fletcher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Caine based Carter partly on his own working-class London upbringing and real criminals he knew.
The film was nearly lost; its 1999 re-release revealed how deeply it influenced British crime cinema from Sexy Beast to Peaky Blinders.
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