Actress Britt Ekland (1942)

The spy film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) is the ninth installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. Starring Roger Moore as the iconic MI6 agent, it loosely adapts Ian Fleming’s posthumously published novel of the same name. In this thrilling tale, an American gangster named Rodney seeks out renowned hitman Francisco Scaramanga with a bounty on his head. However, his attempted assassination takes a turn when he is led into a funhouse section of Scaramanga’s estate and falls victim to the hitman’s golden gun. Meanwhile, ...

Get Carter (1971), a British gangster film and the directorial debut of Mike Hodges, follows the story of Jack Carter, a London-based gangster originally from Newcastle. He works for the notorious crime bosses Gerald and Sid Fletcher, but has been carrying on an affair with Gerald’s girlfriend Anna. Jack is planning to escape with her to South America, but first he must attend his brother Frank’s funeral in Newcastle, who supposedly died in a drunk driving accident. Despite warnings from his bosses to avoid trouble due to the friendship between Gerald and the Newcastle mob, Jack decides to investigate ...