Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir

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Parker is clear right from the get go about who is going to go kill, there may be a little mystery to it, but he pretty much knows who he has to get to. DVD was released in Region 1 on February 13, 2001, [5] and Region 2 on 24 June 2002, it was distributed by Warner Home Video. That believability can’t just be taken at face value though the way that strange solutions to whodunits can and still be successful. Aside from its score, Budd also composed three songs: "Looking For Someone", "Love Is A Four Letter Word" (with lyrics by Jack Fishman) and "Hallucinations".

A censored version was released in West Germany on 6 August 1971, with a running time nine minutes shorter than the original. Having avenged Frank and Doreen, Jack walks along the shoreline – where he is shot dead from a distance by Kinnear's associate.

So whilst Lewis' novel does sometimes feel like a period piece - being contemporary to the time of writing, it still manages to deliver an effective and compelling narrative. This was later sampled by Vangelis, who used it on the 1981 Jon and Vangelis track The Friends of Mr Cairo.

Mitchell, Wendy, "Get Armstrong" Archived 9 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Screen Daily, 23 March 2011. Michael Klinger and the MGM publicity spokesman dismissed the use of the location as mere coincidence; however, Hodges was aware of the significance of the house and chose it deliberately. Extras included three trailers; the international trailer, an introduction by Michael Caine to the people of Newcastle, and a third featuring Roy Budd playing the opening theme. I can’t help thinking of this in light of another character who readers are introduced to as he walks meanly across the George Washington Bridge with revenge and murder on his mind. I was annoyed by his over-detailed psychoanalysis of people he sees, based solely on their dress and facial expressions.

The scene is a good and logical closing point for the novel, because all that came previously led to Jack’s death, but I personally believe it could have been handled better. As well as Telly Savalas, names posited by Klinger and studio executives were Joan Collins, and someone Hodges described as "the Canadian lead actress in TV's Peyton Place", which is likely a reference to Barbara Parkins.