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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Countries
United Kingdom USA
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Year
1971
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Genre
Gangster
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Carter's the Name Working
- Carter Working
Introduction
“So calculatedly cool and soulless and nastily erotic that it seems to belong to a new genre of virtuoso viciousness.”
Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies, 1982
Mike Hodges’s intensely gripping 1971 thriller casts Michael Caine as thug Jack Carter, as vicious and single-minded as the crime syndicate he takes on after returning to Newcastle to investigate his brother’s death. Caine’s brilliant, hard-edged central performance is complemented by a cast that includes playwright John Osbourne as the local crime boss.
Rarely has the provincial underworld been so convincingly imagined on screen. Working with veteran cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky, Hodges shows less regard for the detective narrative than for keen-eyed observation of the locales in which it plays out – back-to-back terraces, betting shops, afternoon pubs, dirty beaches and concrete car parks, all under melancholy and uniquely British slate-grey skies.
The influence of Hodges’ film can be seen on many subsequent British gangster films, including The Long Good Friday (1979), Mona Lisa (1986) and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Jack Carter
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Eric Paice
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Cyril Kinnear
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Anna Fletcher
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Con McCarty
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Glenda
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Peter
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Edna Garfoot
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Margaret
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Doreen
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Albert Swift
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Keith
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Cliff Brumby
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Thorpe
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Eddie Appleyard
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Gerald Fletcher
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Sid Fletcher
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Harry
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vicar
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Mrs Brumby
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architect
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architect
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old woman
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pub singer
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girl in café
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woman in post office
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woman in post office
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scrap dealer
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'J'
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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Assistant Director
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Continuity
Rights:
Production:
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Made on location by
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Presents
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a Michael Klinger production
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Produced by
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Production Supervisor
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Location Manager
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Studio
Elstree Studios (uncredited)
Casting:
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Casting
Writing:
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Screenplay by
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Based on the novel 'Jack's Return Home' by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
Stills:
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Stills Photography
Bob Penn (uncredited)
Special Effects:
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Special Effects
Editing:
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Film Editor
Design:
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Production Designer
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Art Director
Costumes:
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Costume Designer
Make-up:
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Makeup
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Hairdresser
Music:
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Music Composed and Played by
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Lyrics by
Sound:
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Sound Recordist
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Dubbing Mixer
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Dubbing Editor
Stunts:
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Stunt Director
Johnny Morris (uncredited)
Consultant:
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Technical Adviser
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