Mike Hodges, the British filmmaker who directed the hard-boiled gangster saga 'Get Carter' and the campy space opera 'Flash Gordon,' has died at age 90.
Hodges specialized in brutal crime thrillers. He was drawn to making movies about the "sleazy, slimy, nasty" underworld depicted in "Get Carter."Link copiedMike Hodges, the British filmmaker who directed the hard-boiled gangster tale"Get Carter" and the campy space opera"Flash Gordon," died Saturday, according to his friend Mike Kaplan.
"Get Carter" was far and away his most famous and celebrated movie. Michael Caine stars as a trenchcoat-clad London gangster gunning for vengeance.The film is"justly considered to be among the greatest crime films Britain has ever produced," the British Film Institute said in"It has a masterful, pacy blend of the sex, violence and style that simultaneously repels and attracts crime film connoisseurs, yet offers much more," the BFI added.
Michael Tommy Hodges was born in Bristol, England, on July 29, 1932. He got his start as a chartered accountant and then served for two years as a Royal Navy minesweeper."My middle-class eyes were forced to witness horrendous poverty and deprivation that I was previously unaware of," Hodges wrote in a letter"I went into the navy as a newly qualified chartered accountant and complacent young Tory, and came out an angry, radical young man," he wrote.
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