Get Carter (1971)

Overnight Sensation

Film.com's FREE movie of the week "Overnight Sensation" follows two friends as they attempt to overcome all the trials and tribulations involved in trying to sell a screenplay at the Sundance Film Festival.

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM)

Rating: R

Release Date: Jan 1, 1971

Running Time: 112 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring:

Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Tony Beckley, George Sewell, Geraldine Moffatt, Dorothy White, Rosemarie Dunham, Petra Markham

director:

Mike Hodges

A crime film which follows a steel-hard guy, Carter, as he heads north to the bleak, ghost-town locales of Newcastle for his brother's funeral. After meeting up with his brother's daughter, he begins to believe thathis brother's death was not an accident. Along the way he has a fling and slams into a viper's nest of pornographers and thugs, lorded over by a venomous, shady-type named Kinnear.

Director

Jack Carter

Eric

Anna

Kinnear

Peter