The Italian Job
Introducing the plans for a new business venture: "The Italian Job."
Introducing the plans for a new business venture: "The Italian Job."
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
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1969
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Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.
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Cast:
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Details
Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
2 Jun 1969
Country:
GB
Languages:
English, Italian
Budget:
$3,000,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
The cast does its stuff to good effect. Coward, as the highly patriotic, business-like master crook, brings all his imperturbable sense of irony and comedy to his role.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 May 2008
rotten:
The film is technically sophisticated and emotionally retarded.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
Caine and Coward play a splendid game of verbal tennis, but by the final reel the laughs are lost in an anthology of dull and deafening car chases.
– ,
TIME Magazine,
21 Apr 2010
fresh:
As a modest fun movie, it works, much helped by deep casting contrasts and a nice sense of absurd proportions.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006