QUINCY JONES HAS such a great imagination. The opening song is just brilliant. Thank you Quincy Jones and Matt Monroe for this beautiful song. 1969 was the year but that song,"ON Days Like These", is timeless.
It’s hard to express the effect this film had on a school boy back in the seventies. So much so that the school boy, who’s now in his fifties, recently visited Turin just to see the locations of the film.
A fascinating insight into an absolute classic film. Especially the part where Peter never forgot the kindness Noel had shown him, when he was broken, an in an orphanage!
This "making of" was just fantastic; I loved every minute of it! I first saw "The Italian Job" on some Saturday afternoon on TV in America in about 1979. I think I STILL remember the TV Guide description: "The Italian Job (1969) English. Fine stunt driving highlights this humorous heist yarn filmed in Turin, Italy". I thought, "hmm, sounds interesting, I guess I'll watch that". I did and found the entire movie to be very interesting, fun, and memorable. It made me a fan of Michael Caine and Minis. And some day I'd like to visit Turin, Italy. There's no one aspect of this movie that's greater than any other. All of it is well done, generally lighthearted, and lots of fun. I can easily see why it has cult status in the UK, as well it should.
Saw it in '71 in The Studio's 1 & 2 Newport with my dad. The opening credits with Matt Monro singing brilliantly put a shiver up my spine which has never gone away. A superb British movie from beginning to end. Sadly , no mention of Tony Beckley's scene stealing performance as Camp Freddie. Caine was superb....the camera loves him.
I saw the film for the first time just before I saw the 2003 remake. It be Lew my mind. After watching this, the talent and expertise and the luck that brought them together, I wish I saw this when I was younger. Love it.
you have to remember now for car jumps and stunts they use model cars cameras and computers, in 1969 not many people had heard of computers. - they used real cars and real drivers.
so glad to find this. Saw The Italian Job as like a 10 year old on news year's eve television around 1971 and took me 20 years to find out the actual title
1:21:23 His wife says here that Peter Collinson died aged "not quite 41", which means that both Wikipedia and IMDb have got their dates wrong for him. They both say April 1936- Dec 1980. ie a solid 44.
Fucking Brilliant. My favourite film anyway but just watched this making of....absolutely loved it. How nice to see warm, funny, honest irrelevance and fun rather than the usual studio bollocks eh? This documentary is everything's The film itself is. Just checked and Big Q and Mr.Micklewhite truly are celestial brothers. I fuckibg love that. 😊🇺🇸🇬🇧❤👍
WOW!!! This is fascinating. I never saw "The Italian Job" for the longest time (and I mean this original, and not the other more recent that I have never bothered with). But when it was out on DVD, I watched it for the first of many times in the 2000s. I'm never sure why I missed it on American TV / Cable over the decades. And to think that Robert Evans was so amendable and trusting to Troy Kennedy Martin's concept and not the stereotypical clueless Hollywood mohul stomping all over a British concept by fiddling with it to "Americanize" it speaks volumes of Mr. Evans wisdom. I never knew much about Mr. Evans, except I thought his skin and hair were rather strangely affected, but obviously, looks are deceiving and there is real substance behind him. To back off Robert Redford so easily and stick with Mr. Martin's concept of Michael Caine shows real intelligence. This story behind the picture shows how everyone had respect for one another, and this cooperation resulted in a classic film!
Fantastic video. I can honestly say that ive grown up watching this film. I remember being knee high to a mini cooper's minilight wheel not wanting to watch when the mini's are pushed out of the coach, as even then, a mini was one of my favourite cars. Plus it was always shown on British tv at Christmas/new year, as well as The Great escape, wierdly, strange choices for tv channels to put on, given the time of year. But when there's only 3 channels to watch, as it was in the 70's its not hard to see why its so loved. Also the bit when its said that the Aston Martin was totally wrecked contradicts what other "Italian job" documentaries have said, also doesn't tally with the renowned Italian job expert Matthew Field who wrote the excellent Italian Job encyclopaedia. (its huge, size of an old atlas and ive got a copy!!) Plus according to the DVLA data base 163 ELT is still a 1962 Aston Martin with road tax paid until November this year. Lastly anybody who thinks the 2003 Italian Job rehash was a film worthy of the name doesn't have a clue, they couldn't even do the simple task of keeping the modern mini's (school buses in size comparison) colours in order throughout the film unlike the original. Long live Charlie croker!!
Good thing thing this video is subtitled, for those of us who only speak American. The "Making of" featurette -- is almost as long as the movie itself.
Culturally there is a gap as wide as the Atlantic between a film like TIJ and most American audiences, both in humour and language. Unsurprising that TIJ wasnt a success in the US - the surprise would have been if it had been a box-office success. The same is often true in reverse. Deep South accents are as undecipherable as any Cockney rhyming slang....
The rhythm played with their canteens is quite a well known English chant in football stadiums; both home county teams and England’s championship games :)
Hi Ollie - yes I realised that. I just thought they’d changed the chant to “Brid-ger” for this particular scene because it does make more sense as Noel Coward walks down the steps acknowledging the praise!
Well, I feel REALLY dumb now! I thought they were chanting, "Caesar!", as in Mister Bridger is the supreme ruler of the prison and the crime world. I LOVE the film, but I'm an American, so maybe there's bits in the picture that I don't completely understand.
"Look neither to the right, nor to the left, just straight ahead" Screams - "I LOVE YOU CHARLIE" "Get on the plane... GET on the plane!" Every part of this film is fantastic! "Will it hold the weight?.... will it hold the weight?" Bill "We couldn't get gold yet so we're using lead" :) or something like that....
What an awesome making-of documentary. So many of these things are pretty dull; this one makes the movie even better - in so many ways. Quincy Jones wrote Self Preservation Society?! (For instance ;)
'...and I'm looking for a small blonde scrubber.' I laughed out loud at that! Poor Hazel, totally undeserved! Great doco thank you but the picture seems very dark to me?
that blew my bloody doors off; in Kilmainham ! never knew that. what did they get for that, a bit of remission ?..........although i know now a lot of irish folk support england, as do a lot of english support d'orish when they play. (obv if you got a bomb under yer jam jar, or copped one from a sniper in the Divis, ya'd think different.)
I think BMC were very astute. They'd get the publicity anyway, so why pay out a single penny, or provide any minis? Would it have changed the film in any way if they had given the crew any minis for free?
I'm sure the Italian job was a happy accident . It was a miracle it wasn't Americanised . It just worked as well as it did cause of Michael and the writers and stunts and English humour .
Robert Redford would of ruined it. Steve McQueen or Paul Newman would of been a better choice however why bring in an American into a British film or vice versa. At least as the lead role, unless it's about that nationality in a foreign country, why have the protaganist played by someone like that.
They could of done a follow up of this were a bus full of big fat women turn up on a hen do and they ballance the bus up on one condition they have to plough through them ha ha ha and Michael Cain sez fk that let the coach go over ha ha ha
and finally remember one crucial Fact......without Raf Vallone, Rossano Brazzi and the Benevolance of Gianni Agnelli this Movie could never took Place...the rest is History
I've never loved this film the way the men in my life do, but that opening scene - Matt Monro, Rossano Brazzi, that scenery - is one of my favourite film sequences ever.
The Best British movie ever....even more powerfull than James Bond Legacy ........I remember to watch it with my dad before he passad away and fallen in love at once....it was the year 1991 and so was the time to move in London and changed myy Life for good......We own to the Brits & British Directors a lots of Emotions and the best Memories in Movie's making History.
david lyon Mark Walbergs movie was good in and of it self. But the originals as and is much better. Too bad they can’t do a sequel of the original today with the same actors. ☹️
As they said Redford was the flavor of the week (year, whatever) Caine (Maurice Micklewhite, whatever) is the only way this timeless classic could've happened
@@edwardhalpin7503 A bit like how Martin Freeman was flavor of the week and a vehicle was needed for Mos Def, so they cast them both in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie with no regard for their suitability in those roles, and they ruined the movie.
A Great film showing G.B. where we stood in the swinging 60s ... I have a question, in regard to the time of filming in Italy? was that in 1968 as England played in The European Championship Finals (in Italy) I ask this in regard to The England football supporters scenes ?
Charlie is not BUYING the Aston, he's paying for maintenance and storage for three years while he was in prison. He says something like, "it's been so long since I've been in this car". He makes up the excuse about the engine needing more air through the second carburetor so that he, not the garage man, can go under the hood (bonnet). Charlie then very subtly pulls out a stash of money that has been hidden in the car for three years. That way, when the man tells him the cost for getting his car out of storage, Charlie has the money to pay him. The reason the garage man seems shocked is both that Charlie can so easily pay him such a large amount, and the comment about "I used a machine gun".
