Get Carter Poster
22 Dec 2020

Rare Get Carter poster sells for £1800 at auction

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The Newcastle Chronicle has reported that a rare Get Carter poster has sold for a staggering £1,800 at a North East auctioneers.

One of the North East’s best-loved films – Get Carter – marks the 50th anniversary of its release in the New Year.

And there was an early boost to the celebrations when a poster for the film, estimated at £100 to £150 in a sale at Boldon Auction Galleries on South Tyneside, fetched a remarkable £1,800 this week.

“It was a very good result. Get Carter is a cult movie and there is the 50th anniversary coming up,” said auctioneer Giles Hodges.

The poster, as pointed out in the artcile is infamous amongst Get Carter fans as a poster that splits opinion as it features scenes and visuals that don’t exist in the film.

You can find out more about this poster and other worldwide cinema posters in our dedicated section of the website.
3 Feb 2020

Criterion Cast Profiles ‘Get Carter’ in Latest Podcast

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As part of the ongoing Criterion Reflections series, the series has come to 1971 and this week they have covered Get Carter.

Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of this third season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1971 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by David Seeley and Richard Doyle to discuss Get Carter, starring Michael Caine and directed by Mike Hodges.

Worth a listen for any fans of the film, although there are some pretty obvious errors in the analysis (Dori??). The presenters are US based, so I think they struggle sometimes to understand the very UK-centric plot subtleties.

3 Sep 2019

Ted Lewis Group Outline Plans for 2020

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The Ted Lewis group continue their excellent appreciation of the author and his finest work by announcing their events for 2020. As we are approaching the 50th year of the anniversary of the film’s release and the 80th birthday of Ted they have assembled a bumper programme of events to celebrate Ted and the film. More detail will follow in due course but see below for a list of upcoming events from the ever-busy group.

Get Carter OST 3CD Deluxe Cover
2 Jul 2019

Get Carter soundtrack to be reissued as a 3CD Deluxe Edition with book

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The ever useful Modculture website has alerted me to the fact that a brand new 3CD reissue of the Get Carter soundtrack is being released this month. It looks like it contains new tracks that haven’t ever been released before, as well as Roy Budd ‘best of’ disc. I’ll let Modculture explain…

Fans of the classic film might be interested in the Get Carter soundtrack deluxe 3-CD reissue with book, which is out this month.

The new and improved edition of Get Carter has three CDs of music from Roy Budd – the first two devoted to the film’s soundtrack and the third to the best of Roy Budd’s other scores.

Disc 1 is the original Japanese soundtrack, with the addition of ‘Hallucinations’ (which was on the soundtrack but not the LP).

Disc 2 combines other incidental music from the film with single mixes and remixes and other rarities.

Disc 3 is other Roy Budd soundtrack highlights from the likes of Diamonds, Fear Is The Key, The Stone Killer and The Black Windmill.

All of that comes in a ‘deluxe’ hardback book format with a huge booklet featuring a new, 15,000 essay from film soundtrack writer Charlie Brigden and a foreword from Paul Fishman, as well as numerous images from the cult classic movie.

It’s available to order now ahead of the release date of 26th July 2019, with a price of £26.99.

Looks a nice release. Once released I’ll update the discography page.

Get Carter OST 3CD Deluxe Cover

DISC ONE – ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

GET CARTER (Intro)
DIALOGUE
CARTER TAKES THE TRAIN (Main Title)
DIALOGUE
LOOKIN’ FOR SOMEONE
THE RACE TRACK (Dialogue)
SOMETHIN’ ON MY MIND
DIALOGUE
GETTIN’ NOWHERE IN A HURRY
DIALOGUE
THE GIRL IN THE CAR
THE PHONE CALL (Dialogue)
LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
DIALOGUE
LIVING SHOULD BE THAT WAY
DIALOGUE
MANHUNT
DIALOGUE
GOODBYE ERIC + DIALOGUE
DIALOGUE
HALLUCINATIONS
GOODBYE CARTER!

DISC TWO – ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK BONUS MATERIAL

GET CARTER (Alternative Mix 1) *
PLAYTHING
DIALOGUE
HALLUCINATIONS (Alternative Vocal Mix) *
DIALOGUE
LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD (Alternative Mix) *
MANHUNT (Alternative Mix) *
DIALOGUE
GET CARTER (Alternative Mix 2) *
GETTIN’ NOWHERE IN A HURRY (Alternative Vocal Mix) *
HALLUCINATIONS (Instrumental Mix)
HOW ABOUT YOU
GET CARTER (7″ Single Version)
GET CARTER (Dope On A Rope US Remix)
GET CARTER (De Few 2 Smoking Barrels Remix)
GET CARTER (Deadly Avenger Remix)
GET CARTER (Breakneck Dirtbox Remix)

DISC THREE – A BIT OF BUDD

MR FUNKER (M15-FB) (from Foxbat)
WAY OUT M1 (SK 10) (from The Stone Killer)
NO DOUBT (MC-M11) (from The Marseille Contract)
DIAMOND FORTRESS (from Diamonds)
IN THE SHADOWS (from The Stone Killer)
JAZZ IT UP (MC-M4) (from The Marseille Contract)
FREE TARRANT (from The Black Windmill)
CASSETTE JAZZ (from The Black Windmill)
FOR ALL MY DAYS (from Kidnapped)
NO COOPERATION (from The Black Windmill)
TEACHER AND PUPIL (from Paper Tiger)
MAIN THEME (from Fear Is The Key)
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT (Theme from The Warsaw Concerto) (from The Sea Wolves)
HOW CAN WE RUN AWAY (from Something To Hide)
CRESTA’S SONG (from Soldier Blue)
THEME FROM AUNT HARRIET
THE CAREY TREATMENT (from The Carey Treatment)
VERSAILLES EXIT
WHO NEEDS LOVE ANYWAY

Gateshead Trinity Car Park
23 Aug 2018

See inside the Gateshead Trinity car park before demolition

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The Newcastle Chronicle has just published an article that includes a video of the last few hours of the infamous Gateshead Trinity car park and what it looked like internally just before it was torn down.

It really does show the state into which it had descended and it includes the chief architect, Owen Luder surveying the crippled building. A nice quick read for any Get Carter fan.

View on Chronicle Live

Ted Lewis
26 Feb 2018

Ted Lewis Group – Lots of upcoming events

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As we all know, without the original Jack’s Return Home book we would never have had the film that we all know and love.

The book was only made possible as it was written by a mercurial author called Ted Lewis, a multi-talented author, musician, screenwriter and artist who despite his grim northern English background, revolutionised a particular brand of storytelling that has been applauded and copied ever since. Despite his complicated life and sad, early demise, there are is a recent reinterest of the author being led by the Ted Lewis Group – a non-profit organisation whose aim is to celebrate Ted’s life and work.

Being based in Barton upon Humber, their aim is to spread the word of Ted’s life and output. It’s a busy period for them at the moment as they ramp up their efforts to get Ted’s body of work recognised for what it is.

They have a number of upcoming events which people may be interested in, including an open afternoon on Saturday 3rd March at the East Riding’s Museum, and various ad-hoc and organised gatherings throughout the year.

They have produced a series of pamphlets, books and a website which chronicles the life of the excellent Ted Lewis – for any fan of Get Carter and noir, it’s a must visit website that you will soon get lost in. Please feel free to drop in – they have also published a separate biography of Ted, perfect to read alongside the Nick Triplow autobiography.

 

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