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Michael Caine/GET CARTER: Best British Film

Mike Hodges‘ 1971 thriller Get Carter, starring Michael Caine and some scary-looking weaponry, was selected as Britain’s very best movie ever according to twenty-five British film critics polled by Total Film magazine. To say that was a surprising choice — not a David Lean drama or an Alfred Hitchcock thriller? — would be an understatement. Other top-ten surprises include Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), [...]