Get Carter

it makes me feel like, almost like, especially the street stuff.

and the stuff under the bridge and everything, it was like, if this feels like unused footage from, like, Get Carter, or some kind of, like, 70s gangster movie with, you know, Michael Caine, who's gonna cut your face, you know? That's what it felt like to me.

Not just the mood of it, but, like, the music, too.

The

Jack Fishman.

I mean, Ry Cooder, who did Get Carter, the year before he did the first Steptoe.

You know, that lovely barrel organ version you've got of the theme.

Yes.

Oh, the, like, kind of one of the main inspiring figures for this show.

So it was directed by the man who did Get Carter.

Mike Hodges, is it?

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

That was-- And Splash Gordon, and-

Yes, but Get Carter's, I mean, when Flash Gordon was okay, but we both really rated Get Carter

Yeah.

And finally on the list, Britt Eklund.

She starred in The Night They Raided Minsky's, Machine Gun McCain, and Get Carter, which established her as a sex symbol.

She was a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and, you know, she was married to Peter Sellers for a long time, and she had a long relationship with Rod Stewart.

Her Secret Society movie, The Wicker Man, a devout Christian police sergeant travels to an isolated Scottish island to investigate a missing girl, only to encounter an insular pagan brotherhood following ancient harvest rituals.

And Daryl Duke did Pulp.

Mike Hodges, who did Get Carter, too.

Exactly.

Yeah, that would be

Michael Caine was in The Magus with Candice Bergen, who had a thing with Warren Beatty.

And then Michael Caine was also in Get Carter with Britt Eklund, who had a thing with Warren Beatty.

I'm sure there's more.

My initial reaction, Paul, was to go to Alfie.

couldn't find any hard evidence, but Candice Bergen and Britt Eklund, he got that done.

Britt Eklund, another Bond veteran.

Are you planning to do Get Carter anytime soon? Is that on your list?

If you want to put it on the list, we can throw it on there.

This movie reminded me more of like...

British crime movies from the early 70s, like Get Carter and stuff like that, where it's not as action focused, that it's more about the characters.

But as we've already mentioned several times, this Guido character, it's hard to connect with him for a number of different reasons.

And partially, I do think it's because of his performance, though it's also...

Yeah.

And then Get Carter.

Oh, dear.

We mentioned that one of the last times we met.

I was looking at it more like, did it help his career? Did he consolidate this as a serious actor? Which the answer is no.

You'd have to look at what he did afterwards.

I mean, he did get Carter.

What were his action films? When was Expendables? Is that a long time after this? That's

I hope so, because he sounds awful.

He sounds like Michael Caine in Get Carter.

I've not seen...

To be honest, I haven't seen that many Michael Caine films.

You haven't seen Get Carter? Well, claim to fame,

it's the only film set in the place I grew up.

Well, it's not set there, but there's a...

I think it's now been knocked down.

A nerve-shattering character drama directed by Don Chaffee, Jason and the Argonauts, from the novel by Graham Greene, who did The Third Man.

And last we have Payroll, 1961, traversing the seedy side of northeast England some 10 years before Get Carter, a streetwise scoundrel Michael Craig and his cohorts plan and execute a high-risk wages heist.

However, the authorities and a vengeful widow, Billy Whitelaw, in close pursuit, the gang quickly spirals out of control.

A cracking cult caper directed by suspense specialist Sydney Harris, who did Circus of Horrors.