A brilliant film about truly awful people. I first saw it when I was 16 and was shocked by how violent it was. Carter may well have been Doreen's father, his having slept with his brother's wife, and Petra Markham gave a fine display of grief, loss and anger at the wake. Ian Hendry was superb as Eric, and John Osborne made a fine Kinnear. Geraldine Moffat was great as tipsy Glenda and Tony Beckley was memorable as flash gangster Peter The Dutchman. Applause also for Rosemary Dunham as the landlady, and Alun Armstrong as Keith. Brian Mosley depicted Brumby very well, and Glynn Edwards was good as Albert. One of the best films ever made. The guy playing Sid, Gerald's brother is John Bindon, a real life gangster who became an actor. He's the one laughing when Gerald says: What's that, a python? Newcastle has changed since then, but there's something charming about it here in 1971.
Just returned from the UK, it's the Blackhall colliery beach. I used the Get Carter Tour site to find it. I actually stayed at a caravan park nearby and mentioned it to a local, he pointed me right to the spot. The overhead towers have been demolished, but a few bits of twisted metal remain. A small concrete channel running down the hill marks the spot. Beach still stinks of rotten old coal, and there's litter everywhere. Goodbye Eric!
I stood in this exact location today. It was amazing to stand there and see how much things have changed. So much stuff strewn about on the beach! Amazing place.
@@cruzcooper213 Its Blackhall Rocks Beach, just north of Middlesbrough, and east of Durham. Walk along that beach and you'll find the exact filming locations, its an amazing place.
I just realised (after watching this film countless times) how funny it is when Eric says 'still got your sense of humour' in the full knowledge that carter has absolutely no sense of humour whatsoever
@Stefano Pavone It was already killing him this scene was filmed first apparently It was said that after the running across the sands Ian had to stop as he was so out of breath they thought he was going to die
@Stefano Pavone yes, a real shame...he had genuine talent and should have been much more high profile. He got old really fast in the late 70s when the drinking and smoking caught up with him.
...that laugh, a mixture of relief, madness and duty done, honour reclaimed. That was very of his Class and era, of his background, growing up in the Elephant and Castle; Cain knew who Carter was, in many ways he was Carter.
When I was in high school and being all obsessed with Michael Caine films and gangster suave, I had this fantasy that the very same shotgun Caine uses in 'Get Carter' made a surprised cameo in the Guy Ritchie film 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'
Thank you for posting this scene. I think of it and mentally pronounce "Good Bye Eric" every single time I see someone get back part of what he (she) done to me. Good Bye Eric is the most efficiently comforting thought I can think of!
In the Hardwick pub in Blackhall there used to be a signed photo of Michael Caine saying "don't f**k with the Blackhall lads"My favourite film of all time!
@@TheGodParticle Yes it is Blackhall colliery county durham, when carter is walking away along the beach you can see the steelworks of Teeside in the distance. Sadly missed from this clip.
@@seeul8rwaynekerr Jeremy Steptoe Corbyn is not a Communist. he is a reformist taking a few loaves from the bakery of capitalism to spread some extra crumbs amongst the workers. As for Pol Pot a Brutal dictator indeed like many others Hitler Stalin or even that anti working class Parasite Churchill. Look up some of his dirty deeds.
@@AbandonEarth911 Interesting, thank you for the geography, and thank you for knowing such a barren place. even desolate , we're too crowded down here I the south east, cheers bro..
Such a great film with such brutal scenes. Even when Carter can be very a charming, likeable and charismatic man, as the audience, you find out just how much of a cold hard bastard he really is. Great performance. Prolly Sir Michael's best.
It's a line of suspended buckets removing coal waste from the coal mine. I lived near there and we used to play under those very buckets when we were kids. I remember the film being made.
I like the bit just before this, while Carter is chasing Eric along the seafront. “Eric, you couldn’t win an egg and spoon race.” The harmless sounding banter belies the violence that is about to take place. The bitter dry humour is chilling.
One of the best gangster movies of all time this will always be a absolute 💯 classic this is a film 🎥 that I've always got time for classic action and actors ! The class in the 70s to brilliant 👏
That was all on Hendry. He was resentful at caine's success, he felt that caine stole his career, getting the roles he should have had. Despite being only 2 years younger, caine was an international star by then. In his prime, Hendry was the better actor, and although he was a functional alcoholic quite capable of doing the the job, his drinking put a lot of people off working with him more than once.
I've never read that the pair disliked each other. Cainey makes no reference to that in his auto-biographies. He does refer to Ian making snotty comments about 'movie' actors not being on a par with stage actors when he was a bit oiled up. Cainey took it with good grace and just let it go.
This scene was shot at Blackhall colliery......i used to live just over 1 mile away in Peterlee co Durham. Pits have long closed down and the environment is slowly recovering after millions of tonnes of coal waste was tipped into the sea just like in the scene, 35 years on and still black shite is still being washed ashore. A massive environmental disaster but these brave North East miners had no choice. When the mines were shut down these hard working miners lost everything. I feel they were ignored and mistreated. I left for work down south about a year before the mines were closed but still have the greatest respect respect for these brave men.....and the pit ponies that worked beside them underground.
Jack Carter was very misunderstood. How many gangsters are nice enough to give their victim a drink to numb the pain before they bludgeon them to death😂?
A perfect murder as the coroner would whisky in his system and if he wasent completely dead after being bludgend by carter he would drown .verdict death by drowning and misadventure.
My favourite scene in the entire film, & I like the soundtrack when Jack Carter has put Eric's body in the bucket after bludgeoning him to death on his way to being dumped into the sea with all the other coal waste.
i remember an arial flight with buckets on same as this that dumped slag etc into the sea from ladysmith coal washery in whitehaven cumbria, it was later replaced by a conveyer belt, my late great unkle worked on the arial flight until he retired in the early 1970s, he refused to go back underground in the pit after his brother was killed in william pit explosion on 15th aug 1947, so they gave him this job, filling & hooking buckets on, since haig pit closed in 1986; the whole area is an overgrown wilderness, a shame when like me you can remember it been an hive of activity. with the arial flight running & coal wagons & steam shunting engines everywhere.
Great scene, great ending. He had nowhere else to go, he had lost Audrey, and he was totally out of control. He didnt give a shit about the girl in the boot of the car.
Being forced to chug an entire bottle of booze is real torture! This scene is so brutal yet so well done! Get Carter is an amazing revenge film, one of my favorites!
The irony is the actor playing Eric was a full blown alcoholic in real life. If the cameras weren't rolling, he would have downed all of that bottle in an instant.
@odiloglobocnik Hi. The buckets take stone and other waste material (slag) from the nearby colliery (coal mine) out to sea. The coalminers themselves actually worked under the sea - the coalface was about 3-4 miles out. You're right the beaches round there and the sea were always too dirty for swimming etc but in recent years they're trying to reclaim them.
That's how they killed Hendrix. Only they sedated him first and used red wine. Mike Jeffries and, 'a few old friends from up north' Make the connection.
Extraordinary film. And this scene gives a small glimpse of Jack Carter being human; despite his ruthless gangster persona, he really did care about his brother.
Awesome-Hollywood tried but couldn't grasp-like film noir.To drink pure scotch like that at the point of exhaustion would oppose every organ in your body, Way too dark even for film noir. He got justice but so did the villains. Like the Long Good Friday
Nelson is right below. This isn't Easington (or dawdon), it's Blackhall, a couple of miles south. As kids we used to play under/near these buckets. I wasn't there when they filmed it but I remember the buzz about the film crew being there.
Yes in those days not that long ago the stone waste etc from the mines was just dumped on the beach from the aerial flight, the tide took some of it away but a lot of it just swilled around until there was no sand in sight on the beach. They also had sewage pipes going into the sea. Now the pits have all closed and the beach has been cleaned up.
Made some people very rich when the miners strike was on they had ex ww2 wagons on the beach (£100 a load ) filled with waste coal to the power station - hard work and then you had to drive up a 1- 3 bank called dead mans bank ! At a coal depot called beckets. That was around 1979-1980 ? Police showing their pay slips to striking miners bad days .all came from the sea coal in lighter than stone .
@@IWASBINDCANTUC My uncle on Anglesey had a haulage business and made enough money out of the miner's strike to build a chalet in Switzerland. And now we import coal from Germany, Poland, and Australia. This is what happens if you don't vote!
Quite possibly the only time anybody had to force a drink on Ian Hendry. What a superlative actor he was- outstanding in everything he was in, from, 'The Hill' onwards.
this is just why a British film industry is vitally important. We can look at films from yesteryear and see how street scenes, industry, and to some extent everyday life, was before they were all swept away. We can`t get that from Hollywood.
This is probably my favourite scene from the movie because Jack gets his revenge and the music playing is so perfect for it But what makes me a bit sad is that Jack gets capped by an off screen sniper It could be from London though.... who knows
Sniper is sent by Jack's London bosses to kill Jack as he is killing all their gangland connections in the North East. They try and persuade Jack not to go Up North right at the beginning of the film, because they have a good idea of what has happened already. Also, the sniper is sitting across from Jack on the train at the beginning of the film too and that's how he knows what Jack looks like. He must have been placed there by the London bosses as insurance in case Jack went into 'Avenging Angel mode (which he did)! Awesome film.
Cant Stump we never do actually see him fire the shot so that's sort of why I was saying that....I actually thought it was just one of The NorEaster gangsters idea to hire a sniper to pop him if he capped Eric
GranTruismo4head you see the hitman dismantle the rifle so it is pretty obvious it was him. If other shots were being fired there the hitman wouldn't be so calm.
The first time you see the film you would think that is it and he is on his way back to Larndan. On a par with Tom Ripley as a great antihero is our Jack.
@NelsonsGoodeye god its a bleak looking place! you must be a real fan to seek that location out. total respect as its a great movie. ian hendry was in loads of my tv favourites as a young lad.is he still alive??
Brilliant film . They went in the long bar at Newcastle ( now gone ) and Michael ask for a lager and was told there did not do lager because they didn't get many girls in there 🙊
@alanheath Yes our culture is a bit of a "cut and paste" of the UK with a few minor differences, the "mother country" is an appropriate term! Melbourne and Sydney is now almost as expensive as London to live in, though the other capitals are still good value. I think we saw from the motorway the smoke stacks of the power station down by the Tees, near the former "Carter" terrace residences that were demolished and are now an industrial park.
I think this was much better than john wick. I know the films aren't comparable but the main characters both have the same occupation and simular revenge plots, although maybe they should of gone all in with john wick and made him lose more than a dog. Either way love both films
Yes!! Until he explained that Cater's daughter was Dorean, and used in porn that his brother found out about and tried to stop it and was murdered, then they 'understood'!
Always felt he coulda got eric nailed along with Cyril at the party, & got him some other time but he goes & phones cyril & tells all so what did he expect to happen afterwards.
