Tuesday 5 April 2011

The Italian Job (1969)

Director: Peter Collinson
Starring: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill
Certificate: PG
Genre: Crime Action Comedy
Awards: None

If your looking for the 2003 version of The Italian Job then you must be stupid as it says 1969 at the top but also because I would never watch a film that looks as bad as that. Today we're talking about a British Classic, not a pointless Hollywood remake. The Italian Job (the only one!) is about Charlie Croker (Caine), a small time crook who wants to steal a gold shipment in Turin by creating a traffic jam. Mr Bridger (Coward) has supplied the money and Croker has also taken on professor Simon Peach (Hill) to plan the scientific things.

If this film had not been made then films such as Oceons 11 and perhaps even Inception may not have been made. This is a classic British film with brilliant actors.

*****Brilliant

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