Free Thinking: Get Carter

Get Carter, the film starring Michael Caine, was adapted from a 1970 Ted Lewis novel set in an underworld of massage parlours and teenage pornography. Mike Hodges, Nick Triplow, Pamela Hutchinson and John Gray talk with Matthew Sweet about the influence of the book and film. Originally set in Scunthorpe, Lewis's novel Jack's Return Home was relocated to Newcastle/Gateshead for the film which Mike Hodges directed. A series of events marking what would have been Ted Lewis's 80th birthday are taking place at Scunthorpe, Newcastle, Barton-upon-Humber and Hull. Jack's Return Home (1970) was published in 1971 as Carter and later re-published as Get Carter after the film was made. Nick Triplow is the author of a biography Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir