Inside the brutal one-armed bandit murder mystery that inspired gangster film Get Carter
As the film celebrates its 50th anniversary, we dig into the murder which originally inspired the Scunthorpe-based novel
06:00, 10 MAR 2021
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Inside brutal one-armed bandit murder mystery that inspired cult gangster film Get Carter
Get Carter, the cult British gangster movie, celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. It was based on the book Jack’s Return Home by crime writer Ted Lewis and partly inspired by real-life events that took place in the criminal underworld
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