{"id":1784704,"date":"2022-12-23T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784704"},"modified":"2022-12-23T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:05:21","slug":"mike-hodges-director-of-get-carter-and-flash-gordon-dead-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-hodges-director-of-get-carter-and-flash-gordon-dead-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Hodges, Director of \u201cGet Carter\u201d and \u201cFlash Gordon,\u201d Dead at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-hodges-director-of-get-carter-and-flash-gordon-dead-at-90%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784704&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"res1144910658\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\"><source class=\"img\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><source class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ap22355509015106-45e059eef905128a47cd93ad88d1f1866f4c0ca0-s1100-c50.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"enlarge-options\">\n            <a class=\"enlargelink\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/12\/21\/ap22355509015106-45e059eef905128a47cd93ad88d1f1866f4c0ca0-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                British fimmaker Mike Hodges is pictured in London on April 26, 2004. Hodges, who directed gangland thriller &#8220;Get Carter&#8221; and sci-fi cult classic &#8220;Flash Gordon,&#8221; died at the age of 90, his friend his friend Mike Kaplan told British media on Wednesday, Dec. 21.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Myung Jung Kim\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Myung Jung Kim\/AP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 British filmmaker Mike Hodges, who directed gangland thriller &#8220;Get Carter&#8221; and sci-fi cult classic &#8220;Flash Gordon,&#8221; has died. He was 90.<br \/>Hodges died at his home in the county of Dorset in southwest England on Saturday, his friend and former producer Mike Kaplan told British media on Wednesday. No cause of death was given.<\/p>\n<p>Born in the English port city of Bristol in 1932, Hodges trained as an accountant and did two years of compulsory military service aboard a Royal Navy minesweeper, visiting poor coastal communities around England.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For two years, my middle-class eyes were forced to witness horrendous poverty and deprivation that I was previously unaware of,&#8221; he wrote in a letter to The Guardian earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The experience influenced his feature debut, 1971 thriller &#8220;Get Carter,&#8221; which he wrote and directed. It starred Michael Caine as a gangster who returns to his home city of Newcastle on the trail of his brother&#8217;s killers. Remembered for its unflinching violence, vividly gritty northeast England locations and jazz score, it&#8217;s considered a British classic.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<div id=\"ad-backstage-Obituaries\" class=\"ad-backstage ad-config\" data-ad-config=\"{\" network><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Caine also starred in Hodges&#8217; 1972 crime comedy &#8220;Pulp.&#8221; Hodges went on to direct 1974 sci-fi thriller &#8220;The Terminal Man,&#8221; starring George Segal as a scientist who turns violent after electrodes are implanted in his brain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flash Gordon,&#8221; made amid the science fiction deluge unleashed by the success of &#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; was released in 1980. A campy romp inspired by 1930s adventure comics, pop music videos and expressionist cinema, it was a hit in Britain and gained an international cult following.<\/p>\n<p>Hodges&#8217; 1985 sci-fi comedy &#8220;Morons from Outer Space&#8221; was less successful. His 1980s films also included &#8220;A Prayer for the Dying,&#8221; starring Mickey Rourke as a former IRA militant, and &#8220;Black Rainbow&#8221; with Rosanna Arquette as a psychic medium targeted by a killer.<\/p>\n<p>Hodges had a late-career success with 1998 drama &#8220;Croupier,&#8221; which gave Clive Owen his international breakout role as a dealer in a London casino. The film initially flopped in the U.K. but got rave reviews in the U.S. and became a hit.<\/p>\n<p>Owen also starred in Hodges&#8217; final film &#8220;I&#8217;ll Sleep When I&#8217;m Dead,&#8221; released in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Brian Blessed, who starred in &#8220;Flash Gordon,&#8221; told the BBC that Hodges had &#8220;a very powerful personality and a joyful, cheerful, brilliant imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hodges is survived by his wife, Carol Laws, his sons Ben and Jake, and several grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge this image British fimmaker Mike Hodges is pictured in London on April 26, 2004. Hodges, who directed gangland thriller &#8220;Get Carter&#8221; and sci-fi cult classic &#8220;Flash Gordon,&#8221; died at the age of 90, his friend his friend Mike Kaplan told British media on Wednesday, Dec. 21. 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