Talk:Get Carter

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The material below was to be the plot, but I think I'm getting the events out of order, so I'm leaving this for the moment until I watch the film again.

Spoiler
Carter cuts a bloody path through the Newcastle. In London he works for Gerald Fletcher (Terence Rigby) and is having an affair with his wife Anna (Britt Ekland). After arriving and setting himself up with a room in a small terraced house he begins to re-establish links with his family and past associates. He meets up with his neice, the mousey Doreen (Petra Markham), attends the funeral and chats threateningly with Margaret (Dorothy White) Frank's girl. He meets up with Eric Paice (Ian Hendry) at a racetrack, his intended target Albert Swift (Glynn Edwards) making a rapid retreat as he sees Carter. After a desultory conversation with Paice he follows him as he chauffers local criminal big-shot Cyril Kinnear (John Osborne) to his impressive home. Carter forces his way into Kinnear's home where he is met with polite courtesy from Kinnear and a general air of incomprehension. However on his return to his lodgings he is approached by Thorpe (Bernard Hepton) and some heavies and told to leave, Carter beats up the heavies and chases and grabs Thorpe.

Bryan Mosley - Cliff Brumby, arcades - businessman, car-park in Gateshead Tony Beckley - Peter, red jag man George Sewell - Con McCarty, red jag man Geraldine Moffat - Glenda, Brumby's girl, Sunbeam Alpine, into river Rosemarie Dunham - Edna, Alun Armstrong - Keith, barman Albert Swift, shifty, in film, stabbed at bookies

[edit] current plot summary

played out against a bleak industrial backdrop of docks, slag heaps and car parks (Owen Luder's Trinity Centre Multi-Storey Car Park in Gateshead).

This is factually inaccurate. The scenes were not particularly "industrial". There was certainly derelict housing typical of the era in the Newcastle, but much of the film had scenes set in a more rural setting or, for example, in the pubs and clubs of Newcastle. Very little "industry" in fact.

The docks were in fact jetties (Tyne) and coal staithes (Cambois). The slag heaps were not featured until the end, so it may be stretching the description to suggest they formed the "backdrop" to the film. The car parks (plural)? Well, there was certainly one and it might be worth mentioning due to its infamy, but any other car parks were surely incidental and not really a powerful feature.

In summary, this needs a re-write.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Leaky caldron (talk • contribs)

Neither was the housing depicted in the film actually derelict at the time of filming, in the sense that any of it was abandoned or waiting for demolition. Indeed, St. Cuthbert's Village estate in Gateshead, where the character Glenda has a flat, was relatively new in 1970/71.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.158.177.18 (talk • contribs)

You are quite welcome to re-write this yourself, though - that's what we're all about. Bob 12:35, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

I've included a bullet point within the trivia section which refers to the presence of the assassin 'J' in an early scene. I do so because it is retrospectively intriguing and truly falls into the category of trivia.

I confess I am mildly uneasy about including it for fear of prompting the reader to form links in the storyline which almost certainly do not exist. Not, at least, in the film as it was originally edited and released in the UK. It is a nuance only really discernible today with the benefit of video and dvd.

Additionally, I've been careful to phrase the point in such a way that it does not act as a spoiler - I hope successfully?

apc 14:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)