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ALLED CAINE
recent re-releases of The Italian Job and Get Carter - now re-made in
Hollywood with Caine in a nudge- nudge homage cameo - provide
useful reminders to today’s audi- ence of his past glories.
But there’s certainly no shortage of Caine still in the
Photo inset opposite page: Michael Caine as Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File
works with various films awaiting release or in the pipeline. Quills, of course, co-starring with Kate Winslet, Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix; and a noir-ish London thriller, Shiner, in which he’s box- ing promoter and smalltime gangster Billy Simpson, the “most East End, roughest, toughest character I’ve ever played.”
He may once have felt cast out of Paradise - and at
this year’s BAFTA Awards there was a rather poignant reminder of that self-styled alienation - but these days Michael Caine is strictly on the side of the angels. ■ Quentin Falk
Photos this page, main: A happy Michael Caine with his Fellowship Award; clock-wise from top left: Michael Caine in Shiner; with Jane Asher and Julia Foster in Alfie; as Lieutenant Fonville Bromhead in Zulu; with Brenda Blethyn in Little Voice; with Laurence Olivier in Sleuth;
as Dr Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules (Archive photos and posters courtesy Kobal, BFI and Graffiti Library)
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