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Iconic film poster fetches a pretty penny at auction

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Published date22 December 2020
Date22 December 2020
There was an early boost to the celebrations when a poster for the film, estimated at £100 to £150 in a sale at Boldon Auction Galleries on South Tyneside, fetched a remarkable £1,800.

"It was a very good result. Get Carter is a cult movie and there is the 50th anniversary coming up," said auctioneer Giles Hodges.

Most of the filming at locations in and around Newcastle, including Hebburn, and in Gateshead, Northumberland and County Durham, took place between July and September 1970.

The film's premiere was held in Los Angeles on February 3, 1971 with a preview in New York in March.

The film went on general release across the UK on March 10, 1971.

The crime film, directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne and Bryan Mosley, was based on Ted Lewis's 1970 novel Jack's Return Home.

The poster auctioned on Tyneside was the work of Italian artist Arnaldo Putzu, who had studied art at the

Rome Academy.

He arrived in Britain in 1967 with his first poster in England being for the Morecambe and Wise film The Magnificent Two. He also worked on posters for the Carry On films and Hammer movies, including Creatures the World Forgot.

In the Get Carter poster he portrayed Michael Caine in a floral jacket which he never wore in the film.

In the movie he wears a dark raincoat and mohair suit and in one memorable scene nothing at all.

Sim Branaghan, author of the 2006 book British Film Posters: An Illustrated History, went to Rome to meet Putzu.

In an interview with the film posters website Film On Paper he said: "Travelling to Rome to meet Arnaldo Putzu was quite an experience.

"I had always loved...

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