Get Carter

( 1971) ITV4, 9.35pm

Michael Caine (above) has never been colder or more menacing than he is in Mike Hodges’ adaptation of Ted Lewis’s British noir novel. Caine plays Jack Carter, a London-based gangster who heads to Newcastle to investigate his brother’s mysterious death, stirring up a nest of vipers in the process. Britt Ekland and Ian Hendry co-star.