Re: FILM REVIEW: Get Carter (1971)
 

To anyone remotely interested, Michael and I come from the same part of London. If his voice were deeper, you'd have a job telling us apart.

Not a lot of people know that!

Re: FILM REVIEW: Get Carter (1971)
 

Caine is one of the rare ones who can pull it off and still be wanted for better films. Lots of times an actor is only as good as his last movie, and if Michael Caine were judged that way, he could have cut his lifetime earnings down catastrophically.

I think if his accent weren't so unique, he might have had some problems. He was hard to replace, because there was nobody really who could do Michael Caine but Michael Caine. And that one Michael Caine could do a lot of things, from comedy through action through drama. A pretty peculiar quantity, is that chap.