Around 2004 the magazine Total Film named The Italian Job a Twenty-seventh greatest British film ever.

Plot summary
A film stars Michael Caine as dapper gangster Charlie Croker, with Noel Coward as Mr Bridger, an incarcerated criminal mastermind who nevertheless diarrhethe a gangdom empire from either in clink. A plot revolves as much as Croker's attempt to stage the gold bullion robbery in Turin, to be achieved by sabotaging a traffic-control computer & escaping, withwithin spite of the sequent snarl-up, in nippy Mini getaway cars along a carefully plotted route. In the foremost half of the film Croker assembles his gang, which includes computer good Prof Peach (Benny Hill), and the super minor character played by Robert Powell. Placed within London and Turinside and filmed in Technicolor, the film remains an iconic evocation of the swinging sixties, although its rose-tinted see of London's criminal underworld was inside sharply direct contrast to the brutal reality. inside point of fact, Caine has stated that he took a lead role in Get Carter (which portrays a equivalent underworld by having brutal realism) largely sequentially to right the to a fault romanticistic picture of organized crime painted in The Italian Job. One of a virtually all entertainingly absurd aspects of the film is that Mr Bridger's gang is do by an sissy dandyman known as Camp Freddie.

Apart from either a colourful vision of a certain period & place, the film is likewise notable for its imaginative & exciting car chases & stunts. Its distinctive soundtrack was composed by Quincy Jones, and includes ii songs - "On Days Like These" sung by Matt Monro over the opening credits, & "Getta Bloomin' Move-On" (unremarkably known as "The Self Preservation Society", when its chorus) in a period of the climactic car-chase. Kennedy Martin's screenplay is sharply & witty, by owning many memorable lines. When an across-exuberant explosives end line text obliterates an armored vehicle, Croker's reaction is an cheesed off "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!", delivered to a t by Caine.

A film's city-depending stunts were intended by Rémy Julienne, and did good deal to assure a continuation of British Leyland's Mini, by then ten years old. A film's cars were all but when much a portion of a cast as a population; the ill-doomed Lamborghini Miura in the opening sequence, various Aston Martin and Jaguar sports cars, and an array of constabulary Alfa Romeos which are out-caused per heroic British Minis. A stunning Alpine setting through which occasionally of the chases passed was a second memorable aspect of the film.

A getaway sequence is the film's highlight, but. It wwhen intended to absorb when numbers of sights of Turinside as conceivable, & as a matter of fact makes there are no feel in terms of the city's geographical layout. When a heist, a gang transport a gold to the Minis in the vestibule of the Museo Egizio. A tierce Minis so race through the stylish searching arcades of the Via Roma, up a sail-prefer roof of the Palazzo Vela, around a rooftop line 2 text track of the noted Fiat Lingotto factory building and possibly down the steps of the Gran Madre di Dio church when the wedding is inside progress. It eventually escape a city by camping across big sewers, throwing off the police force in the run. (This section of the stunt action was, mundanely, filmed at the big waterworks on the fringe of Coventry). the gang make their final getaway in a six-wheeled Bedford coach (actually used to conveyance a crew)—camping higher a ramp on the back when the coach is however travel at speed. A getaway Minis come so pushed away from a however-moving coach when it negotiates hairpin bends.

With success in their way to Switzerland along a winding mountain road, a gang celebrate in the back of the bus. a mistake per driver sends a coach into a skid, by having a rearward of a bus teetering on top the edge of the drop-off, the gold slipping towards the rear doors. When Croker tries to email the gold, it slips farther, & a audience is left non caring whether a coach, its contents, & its occupier endure—a literal cliffhanger ending. Croker's endure line, "Hang on lads, I've got a great idea!", left the film open for a sequel, although none emerged. A ending was apparently arranged to show that crime doesn't pay, & that a film's heroes come au fond armed robbers (sooner, it is shown gassing & clubbing watchman). Inside subsequent interviews Michael Caine has suggested that Croker just ran a engine until a fuel tank—in the back of the bus—ran down, an ingenious guide.

A film has been criticised for existence nationalistic in tone, although this seems so exaggerated when to become self-conscious parody; a Minis come coloured red, whiten & blue, for instance, & Noel Coward imprisoned crime boss almost seems the parody of the Royalty.

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Sequels and remakes
Although it received the Golden Globe nomination (for "Best Foreign Film in the English Language") the film was non a profits around United states of america. Michael Caine blamed its failure there in an unattractive & shoddy ad blitz. Following, plans for the sequel were shelved. Producer Michael Deeley had envisaged helicopters coming around to save a cliff-nail-biting bus from either a prevent of the number 1 film. A thankful gang presently discover that these are a Mafia that has kept a two, & a sequel would use at times been just about generating the gold bullion from either the children.

The remake of the movie, placed inside Los Angeles and starring Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker, was released in the summertime of 2003. It as well featured Donald Sutherland as John Bridger, more of the father-figure to Croker, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Charlize Theron, Seth Green, and Mos Def. It manufactured numbers of changes to a original story, replacing the British characters by using a primarily Our contries cast, moving the action from either Turin to Venice and Los Angeles, and replacing the ambiguous ending by having of these that is all caring. A Minis of the original film were replaced per fresh BMW-built MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S. Besides unlike the original, there exists said to the exist as a sequel in the works known as A Brazilian Job.

Computer game
The popular video game based on the original film was freed inside 2002, followed by The Italian Job: LA Heist (According to a remaking) a resulting season.

Trivia
U.s. distributors Paramount wanted Robert Redford to play the lead role.

Much of the chase sequence was utilized in the MacGyver episode "The Thief of Budapest", when of these will require placed within Budapest like than Turin.

A scene in which a robbers' minis come chased across a sewer burrow were filmed in the Sowe Valley Sewer Duplication rules touching the English city of Coventry [http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/italianjobpipe/01/ (ref)].