Get Carter mansion where art would meet violent reality; HOUSE OF CARDS: The bay widow where the Get Carter card scene was filmed, below, with Osborne far left and Caine far right MOVIE LEGEND: Dryderdale Hall still looks as it did in the film. Inset: Owners Michael and Dorothy Morley CLASSIC: Michael Caine in the 1971 film MOVIE LEGEND: Dryderdale Hall still looks as it did in the film. Inset: Owners Michael and Dorothy Morley.

The Mail on Sunday (London, England) | May 11, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: Nigel Burnham

Dryderdale Hall is best known to film fans as the home of porn kingCyril Kinnear, played by the dramatist John Osborne in the cult Michael Cainemovie Get Carter, set in the North East.

Caine plays Jack Carter, a psychotic cockney on a complex trail of deceit inNewcastle's underworld as he tries to find out how his brother died.

In a memorable scene, he travels to Dryderdale Hall and barges past the heaviesto confront Kinnear, who is playing cards with his cronies in the lounge baywindow.

Later, Carter bumps off his ...

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