Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
- pornography
- northern england
- hitman
- funeral
- loss of loved one
- brother
- gangster
- british pub
- neo-noir
- metrocolor
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Tony Beckley — Peter
- George Sewell — Con
- Geraldine Moffat — Glenda
- Rosemarie Dunham — Edna
- Petra Markham — Doreen
- Alun Armstrong — Keith
- Bryan Mosley — Cliff Brumby
- Glynn Edwards — Albert Swift
- Bernard Hepton — Thorpe
- Terence Rigby — Gerald Fletcher
- John Bindon — Sid Fletcher
- Directed
- Mike Hodges
- Written
- Ted Lewis, Mike Hodges
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 586 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
