Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014437808530
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
Label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: September 15, 2003
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 1075
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 03, 1969

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
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.

In his final screen appearance, Noel Coward joyfully sends up his own patriotic persona, and there are small though priceless cameos from the likes of Irene Handl and John Le Mesurier. But The Italian Job's real stars are the three Mini Coopers--patriotically decorated red, white and blue--that run rings round every other vehicle in an immortal car-chase sequence, which preserves forever the British public's love affair with the little car. Quincy Jones provided the irreverent music, naturally, while the cliffhanger ending thumbs its nose at anything so un-hip as a resolution. It's all unashamedly jingoistic--ridiculously, gleefully, absurdly so--but the whole sums up the joie de vivre of the 1960s so perfectly that future historians need only look here to learn why the decade was swinging.

On the DVD: The Italian Job disc contains three all-new documentaries--"The Great Idea" (conception), "The Self-Preservation Society" (casting), and "Get a Bloomin' Move On" (stunts)--which dovetail into a good 68-minute "making of" featurette. Contributors include scriptwriter Troy Kennedy Martin and Producer Michael Deeley, who also crops up on the sporadically interesting commentary track with author of The Making of The Italian Job, Matthew Field. The deleted "Blue Danube" waltz scene is also included, with optional commentary. The print is a decent anamorphic transfer of the original 2.35:1 ratio, and the soundtrack has been remastered to Dolby 5.1. The animated Mini Cooper menus set the tone perfectly. --Mark Walker




Rating: - A British Cinematic Classic
Michael Caine stars as Charlie Croaker, a newly realised prisoner, who sets about putting into motion a plan to steal a fortune, $4,000,000, in gold bars from the Italians. Until certain events come to pass, he is unable to set the plan into motion. He sneaks into the prison, where he interrupts Mr Bridger's nightly toilet break. Once undue reparations have come to pass onto the unfortunate Charlie Croaker, Mr Bridger finds an interest in the scheme. Once he, Croaker, has selected the team, and carried ... Read More

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Rating: - They don't make films like this any more........ thank goodness
This is harmless enough stuff, I suppose, but what may have been electrifying in 1969 isn't anything like so exciting today, and apart from the famous sequences of the Minis doing their stuff in Turin, this is a rather tedious film, with an ending that is, frankly, a cynical cop-out. Fans of Michael Caine will love it, no doubt, and aging petrolheads everywhere are given a wonderful opportunity to wallow in car nostalgia. Unfortunately, though, the film's weaknesses greatly outweigh its strengths. As nearly ... Read More

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Rating: - On Days Like These
The Italian Job is a classic film and one of the best in the last 40 years. It has great acting from Michael Caine (Charlie Croker), Noel Coward (Mr Bridger), Benny Hill (Professor Peach), Raf Vallone (Altabani) and others. The storyline is excellent, the film features the famous line 'You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off', it has two great songs in ('On Days Like These' and 'Get A Bloomin Move On') and there are some amazing stunts in it. The Italian Job is definitely worth seeing if you haven't ... Read More

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Rating: - Best of British.
`The Italian Job' is the quintessential British comedy heist movie. Advertised as `The Car's the Star' due to the use of three Mini Coopers as the ideal escape vehicles which, admittedly, did perform magnificently. However Michael Cane as Michael Cane, err sorry Charlie Crocker, Noel Coward as Mr Bridges and Benny Hill as Professor Peach takes some beating. Event the supporting cast are fantastic Irene Handle as Miss Plum and John Le Messieur as a faultless prison governor.

The biggest star is however ... Read More

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Rating: - MiniMiuraMadness!!!!
Nothing beats this old British classic, surely no one could possibly hate this. A thriller for anyone, the cars (especially the Lamborghini Miura in the mountains) are just perfect, the highly British comedy, the car chase, the lines: only supposed to blow the ****** doors off, I hope he likes spagetti, well at least look happy you stupid ******* we won didn't we?, try putting your foot down Tony they're really getting rather close, hello Charlie I'm dead, I'll tell you what I got a great idea. This is the best film ... Read More

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