Get Carter (1971) |
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General | Extras | ||
Category | Thriller |
Trailer-3 Audio Commentary-M Hodges (Dir), W Suschitzky (DOP) & M Caine (Act) Listing-Cast & Crew Isolated Musical Score |
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Year Of Production | 1971 | ||
Running Time | 107:01 (Case: 121) | ||
RSDL / Flipper | RSDL (65:40) | Cast & Crew | |
Start Up | Programme | ||
Region Coding | 2,4 | Directed By | Mike Hodges |
Studio
Distributor |
Warner Home Video |
Starring |
Michael Caine Ian Hendry John Osborne Britt Ekland |
Case | Amaray-Transparent | ||
RPI | $24.95 | Music | Roy Budd |
Video | Audio | ||
Pan & Scan/Full Frame | None |
English Dolby Digital 1.0 (192Kb/s) Isolated Music Score Dolby Digital 2.0 mono (192Kb/s) English Audio Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0 mono (192Kb/s) |
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Widescreen Aspect Ratio | 1.78:1 | ||
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Video Format | 576i (PAL) | ||
Original Aspect Ratio | 1.85:1 | Miscellaneous | |
Jacket Pictures | No | ||
Subtitles |
English Arabic Romanian Bulgarian English for the Hearing Impaired |
Smoking | Yes |
Annoying Product Placement | No | ||
Action In or After Credits | No |
He quizzes the people his brother associated with and starts putting the clues together. Unfortunately, you have to be a mind reader to understand what the short, cryptic conversations mean. I was none the wiser until one of the characters spelt it all out for me about fifteen minutes from the end of the film.
I am surprised that this film does not have a MA 15+ or R rating considering all the nudity in the movie. There isn't anything particularly graphic, just plenty of bare breasts, bottoms and bed scenes, but for the time I'm sure it would have raised quite a few eyebrows. I know it raised mine on a couple of occasions!
The picture is extremely clear and sharp at all times, with plenty of detail. No low-level noise, edge bleeding or excessive edge enhancement was noticed and the shadow detail was very good.
The colour amazed me on many occasions. You would hardly think you were looking at a film made in 1971 - its quality puts many films of half its age to shame. Skin tones are natural and never appear washed-out.
The opening scene suffers from some very noticeable background grain, but fortunately after the opening scene this all but disappears. Following this scene, I only noted four other scenes that suffered from some minor grain. These were at 7:00, 15:22 - 15:29, 27:00 and 63:55.
No MPEG artefacts were noticed and only one trivial instance of aliasing was seen at 96:13, which was on a car's chrome grille.
There was a light sprinkling of minor non-disruptive film artefacts throughout the course of this film, with only two slightly larger ones noticed at 18:13 and 26:30. I was surprised at the lack of film artefacts in this film.
This disc is an RSDL disc with the layer change occurring mid-scene in Chapter 18, at 65:40. There was only a short pause which was not really disruptive to the flow of the movie. It occurs between sentences in one of the dialogue-driven scenes. It is quite well-timed, but I think Warners could have found a better place for the layer change, such as on a scene change.
Packaging Errors: The running time is incorrectly stated as 121 minutes.
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The dialogue was mainly clear and easy to understand, with only a couple of occasions where it became a little harder to understand. I comfortably listened to the soundtrack 3dB louder than I normally do.
No audio sync problems were noticed with this transfer, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was no hiss present in the soundtrack.
Roy Budd's musical score is simple and it certainly dates this movie. I couldn't help laughing at its corniness on a couple of occasions, but this is to be expected from a film of this era.
Since this was a mono soundtrack the surround channels were silent, however, the subwoofer did receive a light work-out, much to my surprise.
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Note: There are actually 34 chapters on this disc. The scene selections are grouped in threes - i.e. 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, and so forth, which is a little inconvenient.
NOTE: To view non-R4 releases, your equipment needs to be multi-zone compatible and usually also NTSC compatible.
The picture quality of this movie is great. It puts many films that are only half its age to shame.
The audio quality has been flawlessly transferred onto this disc, with no hiss or dropouts. It's a shame that it is only a Dolby Digital 1.0 soundtrack, but that's what the original theatrical version would have been, so I guess we can't complain too much.
There is quite a good selection of extras on this disc.
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Review Equipment | |
DVD | Sony DVP-725, using Component output |
Display | Sony Projector VPH-G70 (No Line Doubler), Technics Da-Lite matt screen with gain of 1.0 (229cm). This display device is 16x9 capable. |
Audio Decoder | Built in to DVD player. Calibrated with Video Essentials. |
Amplification | Onkyo TX-SV919THX |
Speakers | Fronts: Energy RVS-1 (3), Rears: Energy RVSS-1 (2), Subwoofer: Energy EPS-150 (1) |