8 Things We're Sure We've Seen In Films (But Actually Haven't)

1971's Get Carter, filmed in WhatCulture's very own hometown of Newcastle and Gateshead, stars Michael Caine as the titular gangster hellbent on revenge for the murder of his brother and the horrific abuse of his daughter.

Part way into the film, Carter tails one of the gangsters responsible to a high-rise car park and beats him senseless, famously yelling of his daughter "she was only 15 years old!" before throwing him to his death. However despite the infamy of this pre-mortem line, parodied multiple times by Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in The Trip, viewers are entirely wrong about it.

This isn't the case of the line being a simple misquote, however - it's a non-quote. The line simply doesn't exist. Carter does remark about his daughter's unpleasant experience at the gangsters' hands, and does indeed throw his adversary from the high-rise, but he never says anything resembling the above line.

The quote has been debated at length on forums such as Reddit and IMDb, with various posters asserting that it was in the film and others mentioning that it was simply used in the film's trailer. However, watching the overlong trailer (which spoils every single major event and almost every death in the film), it isn't there either. No clips proving the line's existence have ever surfaced, and it remains a mystery.