Get Carter (1971)
Get Carter is the British gangster film every other British gangster film is measured against. Michael Caine plays Jack Carter, a London hard man who goes home to Newcastle to bury his brother and find out who killed him, and Mike Hodges, making his first feature, shot it among the terraces, docks and coal-black beaches of the North East. The multi-storey car park in Gateshead where one villain meets his end became a landmark in its own right, until the wrecking ball came for it in 2010. Roy Budd's taut, jangling theme still turns heads, and Total Film once named the whole thing the greatest British film ever made.
This is the ABC version of the British Quad, with the cinema chain's "The First Name In Entertainment" banner across the top and the wonderfully blunt "Caine is Carter", produced for the ABC circuit at a time when EMI owned both the studio and the cinemas. First-release Get Carter Quads are among the most prized British posters of the seventies, and this one is linen-backed.
- Year: 1971
- Nationality: United Kingdom
- Condition: Linen-backed
- Type: Original British Quad (ABC circuit version)
- Size: 30 x 40 inches
- Product Code: T7417
