Get Carter - The Greatest British Film of All Time 

Just the opening kills me, the train, the music, Caine. OMG. Brings tears to my eyes how good it is.

Geraldine Moffat, the girl in the Sunbeam, is the mother of Sam and Dan Houser, founders of Rockstar Games, creators of Grand Theft Auto.

Good round up of a great British film, possibly the finest of its genre. I first saw Get Carter at the cinema on its release in 1971 at the age of seventeen and even then realising I had watched a classic, can clearly remember the deafening silence of the audience as the credits rolled, an almost ghostly hush. As I’ve caught up with this fine movie through the years, it continues to reveal. The hit man at the end with the J gold ring was actually in the same train carriage as Carter at the beginning of the movie. Thus perhaps Carters demise was already planned by his London bosses knowing what he was truely capable of, a fact that the Northern crime syndicate had absolutely no idea what kind of hell was about to unleash on them as Carter took his revenge and his set of skills away from the darkness and into the light. Hopefully the likes of Netflix can get Get Carter and spread the word and find an ever bigger audience.

Best British film ever - Get Carter and The Wicker Man. I can't separate them.

Michael Caine was simply excellent in this picture, one of his very best performances. I could not imagine anyone doing a better job than he did on this.

Best gangster film ever. Understated, gritty, truly English. Great actors. Superb.

Love the total swing in tone after he sees the porno. Goes from a cheeky chappy lovable gangster to a cold blooded killer on a warpath.

Still love this film, in all its grittiness and Carter's moral and mental dissolution. It's hard to imagine Carter surviving long, even if he wasn't killed in the film (or as Glenda says it, "Fillum"). His boss would've had him hunted and brought in... sort of like the end of "The Hit," another of my favorite British gangster fillums.

Excellent little video on an absolute classic. A couple of years ago I went on a locations tour of Newcastle. Well recommended to any fellow Carter fan. Thank you!

World master class acting from Michael caine

All time favourite film. Next time you watch it lookout for the second old fella taking a sup of beer in bar scene at the beginning , he has five fingers instead of four.

This has been my favourite film of all time for decades. Absolutely brilliant, superbly stylish but down to earth and believable. A gangster film and a true art film.

I love the touch at the start of the film on the train which you don't notice on first viewing. His fate was already sealed.

Truly a great film

Aestethic is the key in everything: this film is aestethic since beginning to the end: britain is aestethic, every camera picture is perfect, not to mention the music

One of the few films where none of the characters had any redeeming features, a great film. But after watching it I felt I’d been washed in acid

The first two notes of the theme are recognizable as that of a UK overland train horn tone; clearly the inspiration. Still used to this day on the railways. I hear it quite often, living near the tracks. In my mind, the classic tune automatically follows on.

Pure gold from the beginning to the end: every detail does reach the maximum aestethic and aestatic level: camera, cast, direction, script, locations, cars and of course music (the real starring actress) are the non plus ultra: never levelled, it cant be levelled

remember seeing the spoil tubs when i used to go hangliding on the coast cliffs at blackhall

I only came across your video by chance, I’m going to rewatch the whole film now! Thanks

Good doc on a classic movie which itself was made on a low budget by a director making his debut on a film with an excellent cast,first saw this 💎 30+. yrs ago and it is one of my all-time favorite movies👍 Auckland New Zealand 2023

There are many claims to 'greatest British film ever' but honestly can anything beat Get Carter..........

YES. It is.

Fantastic narration

I read the book jack's return home it was class

It is a classic, and not just because of our shared surname. But i would like to add to the mix Withnail &I , sexy beast, performance, If...., dead man's shoes , the Ipcress file , all brilliant films

Michael Caine one of the best actors in the world

Thank You

As good as it gets 👍🏻

Enjoyed that thanks, got the poster edition on my wall along side its spiritual successor The Limey, do think its one of Stamps better roles (if a little theatrical).

I think the thin glass comment in the bar with the clicking of the fingers shows that Carter in a funny way thinks he's better then everyone yet he laughs just like everyone when the singer gets into a fight with another lady. He is ultimately the same as the other Gangsters...even if he thinks he has morality .

You'd have to add The Long Good Friday and Sexy Beast to that declaration.

...also Casino Royale (2006), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) among the greatest British films...📽

I used to live in the West end of Newcastle in the mid-late 80's when it was like the Bronx. Barely a week would go by without a murder in one of the high-rise blocks in Cruddas Park. I was glad to get back to Washington.

The music had much to do with the success, background was also very good, if a little confusing for ourselves who know the area.

An absolute nugget this movie is .

Oh! You’ve been watching television

Great film top shelf cain is excellent

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Class theme music

Great essay on an absolutely classic film, though I always liked 'The Long Good Friday' just a bit more, when it comes to British crime films...

Classic film

It was an excellent film, spoilt only by Caine's total inability to speak in other than a cockney accent despite his 'home town' being in Geordieland.

The end of the novel is somewhat ambiguous, it's not clear if Carter survives or not. He''s not the relentless one man killing machine either, he's portrayed in the novel as a lot less competent and more vulnerable. For example in the novel Brumby realises what Carter is about to do and gets away.

Top film

Great film very atmospheric but I found the lot quite difficult to follow.

Great vid but he does die at the end of the book as well. "Then there was nothing at all" or something like that.

Nah ... Withnail - always Withnail and im from Newcastle 😎

Agreed, but the end is miscalculated.

Well until now anyway with a new breed of criminal oot

I'd put long good Friday before this but both brilliant

Kind of a dark Bronx Tale ~efforts to make criminals sympathetic

I'm sorry but I prefer The Long Good Friday. Maurice Micklewhite is good but Hoskins usurps this piece of fine work.

no Performance is...

This is just 70's grindhouse movie. How is this greatest British film ever? 😅

Ha, not sure about the greatest, definitely one of them though.

No it isn't, but...'The Long Good Friday' is.

Britt Ekland gets top billing and she's in 2 scenes and barely speakers

IPRCESS file is 10 times better and more entertaining. This is Caine doing a cockney version of Charles Bronson. It's a classic alright, but let's keep things into proportion, shall we ? And I agree with following statement: "In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time."

Piss holes in snow

Great film. Worst fight choreography on record - seen more realistic pantomimes.

Let's just say it out loud.....Michael Caine is Britain's greatest movie actor. There are a few that come close, but he's the BEST.. .one more thing, if he had been offered the role of James Bond, he would have made it HIS OWN

Yes . Possibly ... in its own right . 😮