In Mike Hodges's GET CARTER ('71), Michael Caine plays a hitman who trains it back to his hometown to bury, and avenge, his brother. Lauded as one of the best British films of the '70s, it has influenced countless directors including Guy Ritchie and Robert Rodriguez | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Michael Caine on “Get Carter” (1971): “One of the reasons I wanted to make ‘Get Carter’ (1971) was my background. In English movies, gangsters were either stupid or funny. I wanted to show that they’re neither. Gangsters are not stupid, and they’re certainly not very funny. Carter is the dead-end product of my own environment and my childhood; I know him well. He is the ghost of Michael Caine.” “Get Carter’ at 50: The inside story of a British gangster classic”, Jonathan Wells, Gentleman’s Journ