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The Italian Job (1969)

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The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history. Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just out of British prison. Shunning rehabilitation for recidivism, Croker takes over "The Italian Job," a complicated plan to hijack gold bullion from Italy -- right from underneath the noses of the Italian Police and the Mafia. The

Oct 7, 2003

Paramount Pictures

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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.

April 21, 2010 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
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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.

May 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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The film is technically sophisticated and emotionally retarded.

May 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment (1)
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The gold is then stashed in a bus, and the predictable chase ensues.

March 5, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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As a film, The Italian Job is hardly a work of unalloyed genius; but as a reminder of the time when Britannia really was cool, it's peerless.

March 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

As a modest fun movie, it works, much helped by deep casting contrasts and a nice sense of absurd proportions.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Worthy simply for Benny Hill and his love for "big ladies"

May 30, 2005 Comment

Superior crime caper that's a little too pleased with itself, but only a little.

February 10, 2005 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

It's the sort of smoothly entertaining and slyly intelligent crowd-pleasing spectacle that will never go out of style.

March 31, 2004 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
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Overrated heist film whose climactic chase scene is one of its few redeeming values.

March 12, 2004 Comment
Lawrence Journal-World

Very much of its time without ever looking too dated, The Italian Job embraces the classic caper set-up.

November 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Future Movies UK | Comment

It is an interesting experience watching the two to see where they diverge as well as their similarities.

October 17, 2003 Full Review | Comment
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

G-rated movies rarely start out by suggesting multiple orgies. The ones that do are to be cherished.

October 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

1969's The Italian Job is a freewheeling, completely unpretentious chase comedy.

October 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Italian Job

Beautifully shot for its time, The (Original) Italian Job is a wacky caper flick that, for better or for worse, is about 50 per cent driving scenes. There are several good laughs, though, and the formula is simple. Plan the heist, carry out the heist. Plus, they risk a run-in with the mafia, and after glorious scenes

May 9, 2007
danperry17

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Peter Collinson's The Italian Job is an action classic that is pretty good for what it is, but is far from perfect. Collinson has directed a good action film here, but at times, the film suffers from being too slow, and some may think it takes too long to get to the point. Fortunately the great cast here saves this

December 12, 2011
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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    1. Charlie Croker: You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
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