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Director
Peter Collinson
Cast
Michael Caine,
Noël Coward,
Benny Hill,
Margaret Blye,
Raf Vallone,
Tony Beckley
Genre
Action,
Comedy,
Crime,
Thriller
Charlie is a newly free man with a “job” to do: create a traffic jam in Torino, Italy, in order to allow a team of thieves to steal a shipment of gold from the mafia and slip away undetected. A comedy caper film featuring car chases and chaos galore.
The Telegraph
As the Mini Coopers rock from side to side along a sewage tunnel, with £4 million in gold bullion in their boots and Quincy Jones's infectious score swinging away in the background, ask yourself this: is there a film - certainly a British film - that delivers a greater infusion of pure joy than The Italian Job?
Empire
As a metaphor for England at the dawn of the 70s, The Italian Job is a hard one to top.
The Telegraph by Robert Colvile
As the Mini Coopers rock from side to side along a sewage tunnel, with £4 million in gold bullion in their boots and Quincy Jones's infectious score swinging away in the background, ask yourself this: is there a film - certainly a British film - that delivers a greater infusion of pure joy than The Italian Job?
Empire by Pat Reid
As a metaphor for England at the dawn of the 70s, The Italian Job is a hard one to top.
The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin
As a comic heist film, The Italian Job is diverting, though slight. As a feature-length advertisement for the MINI Cooper, however, it's an unqualified triumph.
Time Out
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.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
The brio and ambition of The Italian Job can’t be doubted and Caine has enormous charisma.
Time Out by Staff (Not Credited)
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.
Slant Magazine by Eric Henderson
The Italian Job isn’t the first movie to take car chases into strange and new environments, but it sure is creative.
Variety
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 by Staff (Not Credited)
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.
Time
Like most criminals, however, the creators expend all their energies on the heist and not nearly enough building their characters.
TV Guide Magazine
Their scheme involves causing a major traffic jam in the middle of Turin, Italy, which allows them to steal gold ingots from an armored car. The gold is then stashed in a bus, and the predictable chase ensues.
TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
Their scheme involves causing a major traffic jam in the middle of Turin, Italy, which allows them to steal gold ingots from an armored car. The gold is then stashed in a bus, and the predictable chase ensues.
Time by Staff (Not Credited)
Like most criminals, however, the creators expend all their energies on the heist and not nearly enough building their characters.
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
The film is technically sophisticated and emotionally retarded.
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