Hollywood goodfella: 100 Greatest Gangster Films: Get Carter, #48

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Get Carter, #48 Nov 29th 2012, 07:05 Britt Ekland in Get Carter by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow After launching his career with star turns in Alfie, The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, Michael Caine wanted to play a bad guy. In writer/director Mike Hodges' Get Carter, he got to play one of the baddest. A bleak, angry underworld story of brotherly love, vengeance and betrayal, Get Carter opened to mixed reviews and a lukewarm box office. But like a good wine, it has improved with age. In 1971, one British reviewer called it a "revolting, bestial horribly violent piece of cinema." Another likened it to "a bottle of neat gin swallowed before breakfast." (In a country where a typical breakfast consists of fried eggs, bacon, sausage, fried bread, mushrooms and baked beans, a little gin might not be a bad idea. But we digress.)   Read Rest  Here  on California literary review Media files: af11 britt-ekland-in-get-carter.jpg

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