Charlie's got a 'Job' to do. Having just left prison, he finds one of his friends has attempted a high risk job in 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 the Gold and escape. Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam. I've seen The Italian Job a lot of times and it is one of those movies you can watch over again without tiring of it.<br/><br/>Charlie Croker is released from prison and plans to do a large robbery involving gold in Turin in Italy. He has the help from Mr Bridger, who is still in prison. Charlie plans to cause a huge traffic jam in Turin to undertake the robbery. After doing the robbery,we see the famous chase with the Mini Coopers through Turin, which are then put on the coach, the gold unloaded from them and the Minis are disposed of down the mountain side, some of them blowing up in the process. Charlie and the gang then celebrate their success until they are hanging on a cliff…<br/><br/>Now to the vehicles in this movie, most of which are wrecked: 2 Jaguars and an Aston Martin are destroyed by Mafia, then you have the 3 Mini Coopers, a Land Rover, a minibus (which Charlie calls a "Doormobile") and the coach, which is a twin front axle Bedford VAL. Not forgetting the van that is destroyed when Charlie says one of the movie's most famous quotes: You're only supposed to blow the bl**** doors off"! <br/><br/>Now to the most excellent cast: a brilliant Michael Caine as Charlie, Noel Coward (his last movie) as Mr Bridger, Benny Hill, Dad's Army's John Le Mesurier, Raf Vallone and Maggie Blye.<br/><br/>The Italian Job is great fun to watch and is certainly a must see.<br/><br/>Rating: 5 stars out of 5. "To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life" said Cecil Rhodes, and during my childhood in the late sixties there were still plenty of people in Britain who believed it. We might no longer have had an Empire, but we could persuade ourselves that we had not lost it but had selflessly transformed it into a noble Commonwealth of self-governing democracies. Our Parliament was a byword for democracy throughout the world. Our Queen was the world's most beloved Head of State. We had the world's best football team after Alf Ramsey's England team won the 1966 World Cup and the world's best rock group (The Beatles). We produced the world's best rich man's car (The Rolls-Royce), the best poor man's car (the Mini) and the best sports car (the Jaguar E-type). As Roger Miller informed us, England swung like a pendulum do, and Carnaby Street was the new international centre of fashion, turning out hip new styles that made the traditional haute couture of Paris and New York look positively square.<br/><br/>Of our international rivals, Germany and Japan were still crippled by war guilt. Spain under Franco was a hidebound Fascist dictatorship, Russia under Brezhnev a hidebound Communist one. America was tearing itself apart over Vietnam, China tearing itself apart over the Cultural Revolution and France tearing itself apart over matters quite incomprehensible to the Anglo-Saxon mind known as "the events of '68". The United Kingdom was still Top Nation.<br/><br/>This mood of smug national self-congratulation did not survive the economic crises of the mid-seventies (by 1979 we were more inclined to proclaim to the world how awful we were rather than how wonderful), but it was fun while it lasted, and this film is the best-known cinematic expression of that mood. It is a "caper film", a genre becoming increasingly popular in the late sixties. Such films tell the story of a robbery, but differ from the traditional heist movie in that they tell that story in a lighthearted way and from a viewpoint sympathetic to the criminals. The amorality of the genre is evident from its name, the word "caper" suggesting that armed robbery is a jolly escapade rather than a serious crime likely to earn its perpetrators a lengthy jail sentence.<br/><br/>"The Italian Job" adds something extra- patriotism- to the basic caper movie formula. Its basic message is that British is Best, even when it comes to crime. A gang of British robbers travel to Turin where they pull off a daring gold bullion heist under the noses of the flatfooted Italian cops and of a much more formidable adversary, the Mafia. Their leader, Charlie Croker, becomes a sort of felonious Alf Ramsey, coaching his side to victory in the World Crime Cup; final score England 1 Italy 0. (Is it coincidence that Croker shares his Christian name with two notorious celebrity criminals of the period, Charlie Kray, elder brother of Ronnie and Reggie, and Charlie Richardson, leader of the Krays' South London rivals the Richardson Gang?) There are some good things about the film, especially the well-handled action sequence in which the crooks make their getaway through Turin with the stolen gold in three Mini Coopers. (In line with the film's patriotic theme these cars are coloured red, white and blue; we also see plenty of shots of the Union Jack and the soundtrack incorporates extracts from British patriotic songs, such as "Rule, Britannia!" and the National Anthem). The acting is variable; Michael Caine as Croker is too one-dimensional, and I didn't like Benny Hill's Professor Peach, a seedy sexual predator of the type Hill used to play in his comedy shows. I did, however, like Noël Coward, in his final film, as Mr. Bridger, an aristocratic-sounding gang boss who provides the financial backing for the plot. Although Bridger is currently serving a prison term he maintains control over his gangland empire from his cell, and affects the demeanour of an upper-class gentleman, papering his cell with pictures of the Queen and unfailingly standing to attention whenever the National Anthem comes on the radio. (Bridger's pretensions to gentility are, however, perhaps punctured by his use of the non-U expression "toilet"; any true gentleman of his generation would have said "lavatory").<br/><br/>"The Italian Job" has achieved something of the status of a national icon in Britain; it is regularly included on lists of the greatest British movies of all time and all red-blooded Englishmen are supposed to like it. The trouble is that I don't. I don't like caper movies in general, with their amoral assumption that crime is all jolly good fun. At one time the Hollywood Production Code and similar rules enforced by the British Board of Film Censors meant that crime films could never show the villains succeeding in their enterprises. These rules were starting to weaken by the late sixties, but the famous, literally cliffhanging, ending to this film seems like a cynical way of observing their strict letter while totally ignoring their spirit.<br/><br/>What I particularly dislike about "The Italian Job" is the way in which this cynical amorality is combined with chauvinistic assumptions about national superiority; a crooked Briton is assumed to be better than any Italian, crooked on honest. One particularly chilling moment in this film when Croker promises a Mafia boss that the entire Italian community in England will suffer if the Mafia do anything to thwart his gang's plans. The cheerful Cockney geezer suddenly becomes a racist bully, threatening to unleash a pogrom against a community a quarter of a million strong. At this moment we get a glimpse of the nasty xenophobic depths lurking below the surface high spirits of this film. 5/10, largely for its technical merits rather than anything else.
In 2008, a contest was held to find a solution, and the winning entry was: Break and remove two large side windows just aft of the pivot point and let the glass fall outside to lose its weight. Break two windows over the two front axles; keep the broken glass on board to keep its weight for balance. Let a man out on a rope through the front broken windows (not to rest his weight on the ground) and he deflates all the bus's front tyres, to reduce the bus's rocking movement about its pivot point. Drain the fuel tank, which was aft of the pivot point; that changes the balance enough to let a man get out and gather heavy rocks to load the front of the bus. Unload the bus. Wait until a suitable vehicle passes on the road, and hijack it and carry the gold away in it.<br/><br/>It has been pointed out that the petrol tank of that model of bus is at the back, so allowing the engine to run in neutral will burn the petrol off, reducing the weight on the back part and rebalancing the bus back on the road. Yes, but it was not made, mainly because the film flopped in the United States. According to a "Making Of" documentary, in the sequel, helicopters would save the bus seen on the cliff at the end of the first film. The grateful gang would soon discover that it is the Mafia that has saved them, and the sequel would have been about stealing the gold bullion back from them. In interviews in 2003 and 2008, Michael Caine revealed that the ending would have had Croker "crawl up, switch on the engine and stay there for four hours until all the petrol runs out… The van bounces back up so we can all get out, but then the gold goes over." The bus containing the gold would crash at the bottom of the hill where the Mafia would pick it up. The sequel would then have Croker and his men trying to get it back. A novel showing a possible sequel has just been published which starts with a bus balanced on the edge of a cliff. Don't Fear The Reaper is written by Garry Kay and is available online from Lulu.com.<br/><br/>An alternative source gives a sequel involving the British's eternal enemy - The French. The gold falls down the mountain and is recovered by French gangsters. Instead of mini coopers, there would be battles between Croker's team and the French involving hovercrafts (Britain's other great cool vehicle of the 60s) a5c7b9f00b The Pinto Bandit full movie in hindi free download mp4X-Men: Dark Phoenix in hindi download free in torrentHit and Run in tamil pdf downloadDoom full movie in hindi free download mp4the Cloud Atlas downloadTarzan movie download in mp4hindi Reports of My Death free downloadThe Iron Mistress in hindi free downloadDem nio Sai Dentro de Pessoa in hindi free downloadThe Big Bingo Bamboozle full movie hd 720p free download
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