The Italian Job (1969) Review - It Ain't Broke Episode 62 | Duncan Casey & Toby Venables 

Brilliant video gents! Toby and Duncan play off of each other brilliantly. Fingers crossed for a Get Carter review!

Reviews of THE IPCRESS FILE (1965) or GET CARTER (1971) would be great.. Classic Michael Caine Films are fantastic !!!

The script was actually written as darker, so I think the vicious-ness of the robbery comes from that. Bridger was a middle aged man and genuinely frightening and sadistic. The casting of Noel Coward did indeed come from director Peter Collinson, who Coward had been an Uncle figure to when he was a boy living in The Actor's Orphanage. Coward was President of there, and became Collinson's Godfather. Collinson lightened the tone, and brought in people like Benny Hill and the excellent Irene Handl (as Miss Peach). But what it does is actually create a very unique style, with this Ave' A Banana caper combined with a British comic strip like look, and then bits of cold-ness. Bridger as played by Coward is a wonderful creation, perfectly gentlemanly, yet clearly a very intimidating and influential person. It highlights that the characters are fun and charming, but operating in a violent and serious world. The Mafia likewise are always dapper and charming, but also frightening. There are other traces of the dark undertone in the finished film, with Charlie telling The Mafia that if they're killed, Mr Bridger will have his people commit no less than genocide against innocent Italians living in British cities.

Duncan is channeling Rick Dalton 😉 digging the jacket

They used to play this periodically on American tv. Always loved it.

Will there be anymore Michael Caine Discussions, for example Zulu, Get Carter, Jaws: The Revenge?

Keep going you guys. Gonna throw y'all maximum quarantine views and likes.

Thank you for reviewing this, its one of my favourite films. I love how you guys don't just review the film, you discuss the impact it had on the world at the time and the genre, its a joy to listen to. Will you ever review Get Carter?

Noel Coward was the director's godfather in real life. The Making Of mentions a surreal moment when, in a posh London restaurant, Michael Caine sang "My Old Man's a Dustman" to Quincy Jones, complete with "da-de-da-de-da-da" at the end, which Quincy put into the Self Preservation Society. Trivia: when the minis are being driven into the bus, the man standing at the back waving them in was the director himself, as none of the stunt men would do it. He was royally reprimanded later. PS: I delayed buying the "remake" until it went down to about £1.50. so that I wouldn't waste too much money. Still wasted £1.50. The best stunt on the DVD isn't even in the film, it's on one of the extras

Very enjoyable guys, thanks. It's absolutely a product of its time, for better or worse, but entertaining nonetheless. Toby is always a great insightful contributor. Now bring Brad back!

The cinematic equivalent of cozy slippers :)

Love it

You were only supposed to... I’ll show myself out

I forgot this movie existed for years until they made a reference to it in Hobbes and Shaw. Edit - oh and I'm only talking about the 1997 version. I think I remember hearing it was a remake at the time but like The Ladykillers, nothing I was particularly interested in.

remade recently of course as John Wick 2

The audacious ending actually occurred because the producer thought the film had legs, and a sequel was inevitable. More traditional endings had been scripted but it was quite late on that the actual ending as filmed was decided. The film wasn't actually a financial success at the time, which Caine put down to bad marketing. It's only became a classic through repeated screenings on BBC1, often on Bank Holidays and Xmas Eve's.

I must confess I saw the remake first and I'm told now that it's about a guy watching the original film and doing the heist forgotten that its worse than I remembered.

Any thoughts on the first episode of Star Trek: Picard, Richard? Free to watch on Amazon Prime.

"Italian cars are crap" yeah gonna have to disagree with you on account of the intro of the film.