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movie Get Carter

Released: February 3, 1971
Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
Crime Thriller

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.

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    The Incomparable Mothership March 15, 2014 Old Movie Club: “Get Carter” and “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.”
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    Jason Snell with Steve Lutz, David J. Loehr and Philip Michaels

    We reconvene our Old Movie Club to watch two gritty early-1970s films that have been unfortunately remade in the last decade: “Get Carter” starring Michael Caine, and “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” starring Walter Matthau. We learn about slide-based pornography, metaphors involving stick-shift cars, angry New York transit officers, kazoo parades, and so much more.