![]() ![]() So far, on a par with The Biggest Bundle of Them All and not quite up to Grand Slam. The plan is to replace a computer tape in Turin’s traffic control center, create a massive post-game traffic jam, hijack the bullion truck and get away in mini-cars over sidewalks and through the sewers. It becomes a matter of British pride that the Caine-Coward team bring it off. Raf Vallone and his Mafia band oppose the robbery out of national and professional pride. Caine’s crew is equally inept, including a roly-poly computer expert with a passion for fat ladies’ buttocks. ![]() To secure the men necessary for this ambitious heist, Caine secures the backing of Noel Coward, who directs the British underworld from his posh prison cell. But the most memorable contributions were made by the city of Turin, the Fiart organization and the stunt driving team, L’Equipe Remy Julienne.īy gambling with less money up front, actually investing his own, star Michael Caine stands to make more than he has in a long string of films in which his was the only profit.Ĭaine plays a rather inept petty thief, released from prison and handed the plans for a daring robbery of Chinese bullion during a British-Italian football rally in Turin. What The Italian Job has to revive the viewer of the drowsy first 70 minutes is a whopping good third-act mini-car chase, one which will inevitably compared to the daredevil hill vaulting of Bullitt, the sort of sequence an audience walks out talking about and continues to talk about long after all of the reservations about the rest of the film have been forgotten.Ĭlimaxed in a grand old-fashioned cliff-hanger ending, the sequence owes much of its potential for profitable word of mouth to Collinson’s successful collaboration with second unit director Philip Wrestler, a veteran film editor, writer and documentary filmmaker second unit DP Norman Warwick editor John Trumper special effects director Pat Moore the assistant director of the Italian crew, Mauro Sacripanti production designer Disley Jones and cinematographer Douglas Slocombe. 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl': THR's 2003 Review
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