GET CARTER (formerly JACK’S RETURN HOME) by TED LEWIS (1970, Allison & Busby, 286pp) ****½ Blurb: Doncaster, and Jack Carter is home for a funeral – his brother Frank’s. Frank’s car was found at the bottom of a cliff, with Frank inside. He was not only dead drunk but dead as well. What could have made…
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Film Review – GET CARTER (1971)
GET CARTER (1971, UK, 112m, 18) ***** Crime, Thriller dist. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (UK), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / United Artists (USA); pr co. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios; d. Mike Hodges; w. Mike Hodges (based on the novel “Jack’s Return Home” by Ted Lewis); pr. Michael Klinger; ph. Wolfgang Suschitzky (Metrocolor | 1.85:1); m. Roy Budd; ed. John Trumper;…
Book Review – JACK CARTER’S LAW (1974) by Ted Lewis
JACK CARTER’S LAW by TED LEWIS (1974, Syndicate Books, 222pp) **** Blurb: It’s the late 1960s in London and Jack Carter is the top man in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers—Gerald and Les Fletcher. He’s also a worried man. The fact that he’s sleeping with Gerald’s wife, Audrey, and that they plan on someday…