The Italian Job (1969)
An older gentleman from a British prison mastermines a spectacular robbery of gold bullion in Turin, one of the biggest international gold heists in history, by having a computer expert cause a traffic jam.
5 April 1912, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK
8 November 1926, London, England, UK
18 April 1915, London, England, UK
3 April 1926, London, England, UK
16 December 1899, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
18 September 1916, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
12 May 1931, Georgetown, British Guiana
12 February 1900, London, England, UK
1913, Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
8 March 1938, London, England, UK
1 June 1944, Salford, Manchester, England, UK
24 October 1939, Houston, Texas, USA
20 February 1940, Ischia, Italy
28 July 1935, Lancashire, England, UK
1 October 1936, New York City, New York, USA
27 February 1938, Manchester, England, UK
28 December 1938, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland
14 May 1941, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK
8 February 1923, Paddington, London, England, UK
14 March 1933, Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
21 January 1924, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
27 December 1901, Maida Vale, London, England, UK
11 July 1929, Dublin, Ireland
25 April 1918, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
February 10, 2005
Superior crime caper that's a little too pleased with itself, but only a little.
May 06, 2008
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.
March 05, 2008
The gold is then stashed in a bus, and the predictable chase ensues.
March 31, 2004
It's the sort of smoothly entertaining and slyly intelligent crowd-pleasing spectacle that will never go out of style.
March 05, 2008
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.
April 21, 2010
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.
June 24, 2006
As a modest fun movie, it works, much helped by deep casting contrasts and a nice sense of absurd proportions.
May 30, 2005
Worthy simply for Benny Hill and his love for "big ladies"
November 06, 2003
Very much of its time without ever looking too dated, The Italian Job embraces the classic caper set-up.
January 01, 2015
Is there a film - certainly a British film - that delivers a greater infusion of pure joy than The Italian Job?
March 12, 2004
Overrated heist film whose climactic chase scene is one of its few redeeming values.
May 09, 2005
The film is technically sophisticated and emotionally retarded.
