Tag: Michael Caine

Get Carter

Get Carter is one of the most iconic of all British crime movies, and one of Michael Caine’s most famous roles. Its unremittingly gritty, as London gangster Carter travels North to right various wrongs and encounters a range of shady characters from his past, few of whom end up alive at the end of the…


Billion Dollar Brain

Billion Dollar Brain was the third and final movie in the Harry Palmer spy series, starring Michael Caine. What started out in The Ipcress File as a grittier, more realistic take on international espionage than the James Bond series had by the time of this third instalment morphed into something approaching  Bond-level of supervillain craziness….


The Italian Job

The Italian Job has so many great moments, its one of the most memorable British films of the 60s, I reckon.  Who doesn’t love the endlessly quotable dialogue (“You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”), or cheeky thief Michael Caine and his gang’s escape from a gridlocked Turin in a fleet of Mini…