{"id":165054,"date":"2022-12-22T08:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T08:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mike-hodges-director-of-flash-gordon-and-get-carter-dies-at-90\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T08:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T08:55:59","slug":"mike-hodges-director-of-flash-gordon-and-get-carter-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mike-hodges-director-of-flash-gordon-and-get-carter-dies-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Hodges, Director Of ‘Flash Gordon’ And ‘Get Carter,’ Dies At 90"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mike Hodges, the director of \u201cGet Carter\u201d (1971) and \u201cFlash Gordon\u201d (1980), has died. He was 90.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hodges died at his home in Dorset, England, on Dec. 17, according to ET. His friend Mike Kaplan, who produced Hodges ‘2003 movie \u201cI’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,\u201d confirmed his death and called Hodges \u201ca great friend and a great filmmaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cFor a part of his career, he was underappreciated, and he is not anymore,\u201d Kaplan told ET. \u201c’Get Carter’ was a huge success all over the world. He had a great sense of humor. All of his movies were entrenched with humor and personality. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Born in Bristol in 1932, Hodges worked as an accountant before mandatory military service aboard a Royal Navy minesweeper. Hodges wrote in The Guardian earlier this year that his travels to impoverished islands like Hull irrevocably radicalized him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cFor two years, my middle-class eyes were forced to witness horrendous poverty and deprivation that I was previously unaware of,\u201d wrote Hodges. \u201cI went into the navy as a newly qualified chartered accountant and complacent young Tory, and came out an angry, radical young man.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n