Mike Hodges Dies: Director Of ‘Get Carter,’ ‘Croupier’ & ‘Flash Gordon’ Was 90
deadline.comMike Hodges, best known as the director of gritty, stylish thrillers like Get Carter — the original — Croupier, The Terminal Man and I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead has died, according to his longtime friend and the producer of I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, Mike Kaplan.
Hodges was 90. Hodges was a relatively new director who’d worked mostly in TV when he burst upon the international film scene with Get Carter in 1971.
The crime drama starring Michael Caine is still considered among the best British gangster films ever made. Set against a working class background in northern England, Hodges blended irony and humor with stark tension and sudden violence.
Those elements became, along with his attention to atmosphere, his signatures. The film was remade in 2000 with Sylvester Stallone as the lead.
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