Michael Caine’s Carter is still brutally brilliant
As he approaches 90, Michael Caine is the beloved, cuddly elder statesman of the UK film industry. For years it was traditional to poke fun at him for deigning to star in silly Eighties sequel as a beach bum whose seaplane is chomped by the great white. The imminent rerelease of 1971’s Get Carter – a brutal gangster tale that still feels queasily compelling over 50 years later – is a useful reminder that there was a
