Film Details
The greatest Brit-flick crime caper comedy of all time!
1969's The Italian Job towers mightily above its latter-day mockney imitators. After Alfie but before Get Carter Michael Caine is the hippest ex-con around, bedding the birds (several at a time) and spouting immortal one-liners ("You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"). The inheritor of a devious plan to steal gold bullion in the traffic-choked streets of Turin, Caine recruits a misfit team of genial underworld types — including a lecherous Benny Hill and three plummy public-schoolboy rally drivers — and uses the occasion of an England-Italy football match as cover for the heist.
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill
Certificate: 12A
Running Time: 99 minutes