The role of the women in the classic gangster genre using the film "Get Carter"

In the film, Get Carter (1971), directed by Mike Hodges, women are objectified as sex objects, and carry little personality. The many female characters in the film are portrayed as needy, and seem to throw themselves at Jack Carter (Michael Caine), the main character in the film. In a gangster film, women are typically viewed as personal possessions to powerful crime bosses, and other powerful figures. The film Get Carter illustrates the strong sexism towards women …

…to Edna, telling her to shut up and so on. After he found out that the mob boss' lady was also in on setting him up, he had not problem slapping her around, and almost drowning her in a bathtub, where she was bathing after just sleeping with him. Jack Carter's emotions usually got the best of him, and as in many films in the gangster genre, Jack stopped at nothing to get his revenge.