Rent The Italian Job (1969)
3.8 of 5 from 314 ratings
1h 35min
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- Synopsis:
- Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) is out of jail and on the make with an ingenious plan for the heist of the century. Aided and abetted by top criminal mastermind Mr. Bridger (Noël Coward), Charlie sets off with an ace team of villains and three very special minis to lift $4,000,000 from under the noses of the Turin Polizei. The trouble is, with the cops and the Mafia on his tail, Charlie finds that grabbing the money is kid's stuff compared to getting away with it...
- Actors:
- Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi, Margaret Blye, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier, Fred Emney, John Clive, Graham Payn, Michael Standing, Stanley Caine, Barry Cox, Harry Baird, George Innes, John Forgeham, Robert Powell, Derek Ware
- Directors:
- Peter Collinson
- Producers:
- Michael Deeley, Stanley Baker
- Writers:
- Troy Kennedy-Martin
- Studio:
- Paramount
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Thrillers
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 15/06/2009
- Run Time:
- 95 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, English LPCM Mono, French LPCM Mono, German LPCM Mono, Italian LPCM Mono, Spanish LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Commentary with screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin and Matthew Field, author of "The making of the Italian job"
- Commentary by producer Michael Deeley and Matthew Field
- Mini adventures HD
- Self preservation society: Making the Italian Job HD
- Music video HD
- The deleted scene with commentary by author Matthew Field
- Theatrical trailer HD
- Re-release trailer HD
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Unknown
- Run Time:
- 99 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary by Screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin and Matthew Field, the Author of The Making of 'The Italian Job'
- Audio Commentary by Producer Michael Deeley and Matthew Field, the Author of 'Michael Caine: You're a Big Man'
- The Great Idea: 2002 Documentary
- The Self Preservation Society: 2002 Documentary
- Getta Bloomin' Move On: 2002 Documentary
- Mini Adventures: 2009 Featurette
- The Deleted Scene with Optional Audio Commentary by Matthew Field
- Theatrical and Re-Release Trailers
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Reviews (4) of The Italian Job
Of Course It's A Classic & Very Funny Too - The Italian Job review by GI
This is the quintessential comedy caper movie and a fantastic British film to boot. Michael Caine is the cockney criminal who plans a gold heist in Turin stealing '$4million through a traffic jam'. Caine is Charlie, a cockney criminal fresh out of jail who adopts a plan by an old friend, murdered by the mafia, to carry out the audacious heist. He needs the financial support of Bridger (Noël Coward), a Queen loving crime boss who is in jail where he's treated as royalty. The gang are all lovable rogues and none of them have counted on the local mafia trying to stop them as well as the police. The film is a cult favourite and rightly so, full of quotable lines including one used by Caine impersonators ever since, and with a car chase involving three Mini Coopers. There's a host of British character actors who will be recognisable from TV throughout the late 60s and 70s as well as famous comedian Benny Hill and Noël Coward who was very ill at the time the film was made. With it's famous ending this is exciting and very, very funny and definitely a film to enjoy time and time again. Forget the 2003 remake it's awful but make sure this one is in your collection.
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Classic - The Italian Job review by CP Customer
its cult status is well deserved
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Its no classic! - The Italian Job review by Colin Taylor
If you like Michael Caine and Minis,and the idea that the sixties was all about winning the World Cup and beating Johnny Foreigner, then you might like it, I suppose.
While watching it I was reminded of TV show 'On the Buses'-in which men who are way too old cop off with 'dolly birds' all the time and think that thats what the sixties were all about.Its got Benny Hill in it, for goodness sake!
Its no classic, and has dated terribly-all the women are excitable idiots who scream when the lights go out during a power cut, and are there as decoration only.
Why the fascination with gangsters and heist films, is that the only films Britain is good at?
Admittedly I watched this having just watched 'Casablanca'-theres more to that in the first 15mins before we even see the main characters than in the whole of this tosh.
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