Fails the Bechdel test
Get Carter
1971. Directed by Mike Hodges, written by Mike Hodges and Ted Lewis.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 6 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident, and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld, leading, he hopes, to the man who ordered his brother killed. Carter exhibits all the ruthlessness and unstoppability of the cyborg in The Terminator (1984), or Walker in Point Blank (1967), and he and the other characters in this movie are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence.
- Released
- 18 Mar 1971
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 80 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 1 nomination total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Carter 307 lines, man
- Edna 49 lines, woman
- Glenda 41 lines, woman
- Keith 33 lines, man
- Brumby 32 lines, man
- Eric 31 lines, man
- Kinnear 30 lines, man
- Margaret 20 lines, woman
- Albert 16 lines, man
- Con 16 lines, man
Full cast, 36 people
- Michael Caine as Jack Carter
- Ian Hendry as Eric
- Britt Ekland as Anna
- John Osborne as Kinnear
- Tony Beckley as Peter
- George Sewell as Con
- Geraldine Moffat as Glenda
- Rosemarie Dunham as Edna
- Petra Markham as Doreen
- Alun Armstrong as Keith
- Bryan Mosley as Cliff Brumby
- Glynn Edwards as Albert Swift
- Bernard Hepton as Thorpe
- Terence Rigby as Gerald Fletcher
- John Bindon as Sid Fletcher
- Godfrey Quigley as Eddie
- Kevin Brennan as Harry
- Maxwell Deas as Vicar (uncredited)
- Liz McKenzie as Mrs. Brumby (uncredited)
- John Hussey as Architect (uncredited)
- Ben Aris as Architect (uncredited)
- Kitty Atwood as Old Woman (uncredited)
- Denea Wilde as Pub Singer (uncredited)
- Geraldine Sherman as Girl in Café (uncredited)
- Joy Merlyn as Woman in Post Office (uncredited)
- Yvonne Miklosh as Woman in Post Office (uncredited)
- Alan Hockey as Scrapyard Dealer (uncredited)
- Karl Howard as 'J' (uncredited)
- Allan Surtees as Gambler (uncredited)
- John Quarmby as Second Gambler (uncredited)
- Ellis Dale as Undertaker (uncredited)
- Alexander Morton as Hubert (uncredited)
- Terence Plummer as Thorpe's Driver (uncredited)
- Doug Archell as Drug Dealer (uncredited)
- Dorothy White as Margaret (uncredited)
- John Morris as Thug (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 149
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 22 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 to 16 | 0 | 4 |
| 17 to 20 | 3 | 3 |
| 21 to 24 | 5 | 6 |
| 25 to 28 | 5 | 16 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 8 |
| 33 to 36 | 10 | 38 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 37 |
| 41 to 44 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 to 48 | 14 | 73 |
| 49 to 52 | 9 | 28 |
| 53 to 56 | 4 | 4 |
| 57 to 60 | 0 | 2 |
| 61 to 64 | 1 | 22 |
| 65 to 68 | 12 | 9 |
| 69 to 72 | 9 | 56 |
| 73 to 76 | 18 | 14 |
| 77 to 80 | 2 | 22 |
| 81 to 84 | 5 | 13 |
| 85 to 88 | 0 | 4 |
| 89 to 92 | 11 | 29 |
| 93 to 96 | 8 | 23 |
| 97 to 100 | 9 | 9 |
| 101 to 104 | 10 | 16 |
| 105 to 108 | 1 | 36 |
| 109 to 112 | 0 | 15 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 5 |
| 117 to 120 | 6 | 1 |
| 121 to 124 | 0 | 4 |
| 125 to 128 | 0 | 4 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 5 |
| 133 to 136 | 0 | 3 |
| 137 to 140 | 0 | 0 |
| 141 to 144 | 0 | 3 |
| 145 to 148 | 0 | 11 |
| 149 to 149 | 0 | 0 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 21 are women's.
142 lines from women, 545 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
7 women and 22 men in the cast. 6 women and 15 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 29 of 697.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 83 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 18% of the words (845), men 82% (3,960). Women have 21% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
0
Two men
38
Exhibit E: behind the camera
1 of the 10 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 9% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Mike Hodges (man)
- Written by
- Mike Hodges (man), Ted Lewis (man)
- Produced by
- Michael Klinger (man), Michael Caine (man)
- Shot by
- Wolfgang Suschitzky (man)
- Edited by
- John Trumper (man)
- Music by
- Roy Budd (gender not listed)
- Production design by
- Assheton Gorton (man)
- Costumes by
- Evangeline Harrison (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
0 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
-
Other crew
0 women, 2 men
-
Sound
0 women, 0 men, 2 not listed
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Writing
0 women, 2 men
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Camera
0 women, 1 men
-
Directing
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 29 on average. Men: 38 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Petra Markham 23, Britt Ekland 28, Geraldine Moffat 31, Rosemarie Dunham 35
Men
Alun Armstrong 24, Michael Caine 37, Ian Hendry 40, John Osborne 41, Tony Beckley 41, George Sewell 46
Exhibit G: the money
What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.
- Budget
- $1.8 million
- Box office
- Not listed
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 149 scenes and 697 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
