Classic gangster film 'Get Carter' on C5 yesterday

[max_tranmere]

I watched this for about the 10th time last night. Michael Caine plays one mean bastard in this film, and his acting is superb. He has such a menacing look all the time that you would have been scared just meeting this character, let alone crossing him. What do other people think about this movie? To me it's a toss-up between this, and The Long Good Friday, for the title of the best British gangster film of all time.

[Jonone]

The first half of Donald Cammell/Nic Roeg's 'Performance' is up there, 'Sexy Beast' deserving of a mention, and an older film starring Stanley Baker called 'Robbery' is a good one.

I was watching some dvd extras featuring Malcolm Macdowall at the weekend and he rates 'Gangster No 1'. Macdowall's playing of Benny Barrett in 'Our Friends From The North' was a joy to behold and in gangster territory.

[johnsix]

Get Carter has that continuous air of menace about it whereas LGF can get a bit pantomime in places. First saw it as an errant 16 year old, Still got the Roy Budd 45 somewhere. !happy!

[jj]

Did you SEE the Stallone remake?

AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUUUUUUUUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[max_tranmere]

I saw the Stallone remake and, like many American attempts at 'doing Britishness' they missed the mark completely. Stallone apparently personally campaigned for the multi-storey car park used in 'Get Carter', which is located just outside Newcastle in Gateshead, to be preserved as a bit of film history. I think many of the locals want it knocked down as it is such an eye-sore (it may even have been knocked down by now).

[Peter]

One of my favourite all time films.

Did you spot the guy with six fingers in the first pub scene?


This, for those interested in this sort of thong.

[steve56]

Theres a great line in it somewhere in the middle Caine says to Hendry your eyes are like pissholes in the snow! Who was the hardest Caine or Shand?

[steve56]

Stonedfaced he drowns Geraldine Moffat in the bath saw her in a old episode of Within These Walls over the weekend.

[Peter]

steve56 wrote:

> Stonedfaced he drowns Geraldine Moffat in the bath saw her in a
> old episode of Within These Walls over the weekend.

Appartently she's the mother of the guys who wrote the Grand Theft Auto games.

[andy at handiwork]

Fabulous music from Get Carter and other Roy Budd scored movies is available on a CD called 'Vigilante', available here and there if you look around.