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Get Carter

Reassessing the classic Brit noir film and the Ted Lewis novel it was based on with with director Mike Hodges and philosopher John Gray among Matthew Sweet's guests.

he film starring Michael Caine was adapted from a 1970 Ted Lewis novel set in an underworld of gangsters and teenage pornography. Mike Hodges, Nick Triplow, Pamela Hutchinson and John Gray talk with Matthew Sweet about the influence of the book and re-watch the film, which has just been restored in 4k and returns to UK cinemas this summer.

Originally set in Scunthorpe, Lewis' novel Jack's Return ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ was relocated to Newcastle/Gateshead for the film which Mike Hodges adapted and directed.

Jack's Return ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ (1970) was published in 1971 as Carter and later re-published as Get Carter after the film was made.
Nick Triplow is the author of a biography Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir
Get Carter is screening in early June at the BFI and then at selected regional cinemas. It is being released on UHD & Blu-ray on 25 July.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

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