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Assheton Gorton

Born: 10 July 1930
Died: 14 September 2014

Highlighted works

  • Get Carter

    Get Carter

    Newcastle-born hardman Jack Carter (Michael Caine) returns from London to his birthplace to avenge his brother’s murder.

  • The Bed Sitting Room

    The Bed Sitting Room

    This nightmarishly surreal, quintessentially British comedy about everyday life after a ‘nuclear misunderstanding’ was shelved by its bemused backers for over a year.

  • Blowup

    Blowup

    The refined visual style of Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni collides with swinging 60s London in this story of a man who may have unwittingly photographed a murder.

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