| Release Date: | Feb 1971 |
|---|---|
| Genres: | Thriller / Drama / Crime / Action |
| Awards: | Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. |
| Cast: | Michael Caine (Jack Carter), Ian Hendry (Eric Paice), Britt Ekland (Anna), John Osborne (Cyril Kinnear), Tony Beckley (Peter the Dutchman), George Sewell (Con McCarty), Geraldine Moffat (Glenda (as Geraldine Moffatt)), Dorothy White (Margaret), Rosemarie Dunham (Edna), Petra Markham (Doreen), Alun Armstrong (Keith), Bryan Mosley (Cliff Brumby), Glynn Edwards (Albert Swift), Bernard Hepton (Thorpe), Terence Rigby (Gerald Fletcher), John Bindon (Sid Fletcher), Godfrey Quigley (Eddie), Kevin Brennan (Harry), Maxwell Dees (Vicar), Liz McKenzie (Mrs. Brumby), John Hussey (Architect), Ben Aris (Architect), Kitty Atwood (Old Woman (as Kitty Attwood)), Denea Wilde (Pub Singer), Geraldine Sherman (Girl in café), Joy Merlyn (Woman in Post Office), Yvonne Michaels (Woman in Post Office), Alan Hockey (Scrapyard Dealer), Carl Howard ('J'), Ellis Dale (Undertaker (uncredited)), John Quarmby (2nd Gambler (uncredited)) |
A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld, leading, he hopes, to the man who ordered his brother killed. Because of his ruthlessness Carter exhibits all the unstopability of the android in Terminator, or Walker in Point Blank, and he and the other characters in the film are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence.
