The Italian Job: 50 Things You Don't Need to Know 

The stunt driver Remy Julienne has just passed away aged 90, January 2021. He also worked on 6 James Bond films as well.

In hindsight, British Layland should have been grateful for the publicity. The Mini is an Icon thanks to this movie. And a great movie it is.

I saw this film when I was about six years old, in the theater. I loved it, then I grew up but the movie stayed with me, or at least bits and pieces did. I especially remember the bringing the minis up the ramp into the bus and when they threw them back out. I also remembered a scene where someone, and by then I had forgotten the actors, threw a bicycle into an electrical substation and knocked out the power. Beyond that I knew so little. And I couldn't find out any more and I searched through Leonard Maltin's annual guide for years trying to find this movie, I had no name for it, and I honestly thought Dean Jones was in it(because in 1969 when I saw it I was six, every movie I saw, mostly Disney, had Dean Jones in it). Jump ahead to 1998 and finally by putting in a few elements I remember into IMDB I found it. I ran right out and found a VHS of it at a local video store and since then I have watched it periodically, updating to DVD when I could. I love this feature, which has told me so much more about a movie I have loved for many years. Thank you.

Nice to watch this over a quick Lockdown lunch. One of the best films ever made, since it's in all kinds of pop culture and people know about it who weren't even born at the time.

Having seen this film countless, I always notice something new. Now you have added to that list. Definitely one of my favorite movies of all time. Had tears of joy, watching youtube'r Ian Tyrell drive that Muira through the alps, talking about how they found it. Thanks for sharing

Somehow I can't imagine Robert Redford saying "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" I didn't work out the weight of the gold, but if they stole half a ton and divided it between three cars, then each would have to carry 1/6th of a ton - those cars should have stood up on their rear ends during the rooftop jump. Apparently Collinson did the "waving the cars aboard the bus" becaues no stuntman would take it on, thinking it too dangerous. Ah, yes, Crime Does Not Pay. The first film I ever saw where they get away with it was Kelly's Heroes; right up to the last second I was waiting for something to go wrong, because something always did, and then the credits started rolling and it was a shock to realise that they DID get away with it.

Very interesting you can't stop watching the movie. The most interest is understanding knowing the role played by casts and producers.

Respect to Turin for the help in making this film and Fiat

the land rover tow truck was an actual tow truck which belonged to the father of the actor who plays the character "dominic" in the film, the landrover was his fathers garage buisness tow vehicle which was enhanced by the prop guys with mesh window covers and jerrycans, otherwise it was as used by the garage...it was last uk road registered in 1992.....he also owned the jaguars, the thames 400e crewbus and the ambassadors daimler...the alfa police car does not appear in the sewer scene as it was filmed in the uk..look carefully in the film and one can see the police car chasing the minis in the sewer has three grille mounted spotlamps....its a mini with a police light on the roof!!

The sounds of the screeching tyres were recorded in Aldershot in the Multistorey Carpark then dubbed onto the movie.

This classic beats the hell out of the mediocre remake.

Clips of this movie was used in an episode of MacGyver

Great job! I really like your work. Thanks.

Great video about one of my all time favorite movies. Thanks, a million movies, that was well worth my time.

Very good indeed and a few surprises. Definitely one of my favourite films of all time!! Have Fun and Stay Safe, Joe

My pal was in this film as one of the gang. He was a really great guy and I miss him a lot. This is one of my favourite films and haven't been able to watch it since his death.

Thanks for the video, some useful trivia there. The Col du Nivolet road is a dead end so would have caused some annoyance when the Miura reached the end! And the Aston as you say didn't go over the edge, it was substituted with an equally lovely Lancia Flaminia two-door convertible in very similar colours - that should have annoyed the Italian classic car fraternity...Long live Michael Caine!

I enjoyed this a lot thanks ,

Very nice review!

Excellent insight. Thanks a lot

Comprehesive and entertaining and very enjoyable!

This is great ! a fantastic insight into the movie , must have seen the movie a 100 times and never knew all this great info ! Very very well put together..... Superb !

Thank you for this "mini" documentary lol

My god this is out of this world ❤️🚘

Sorry, but Minis - and ALL cars in fact - certainly does have a differential. This is the component that enables the drive wheels to turn at different speeds while cornering. In the Mini, the “diff” is housed inside the front-mounted transaxle and not, as you stated, in the middle of a rear axle.

Finally, a new video. I missed ya!

Brilliant video !!!! Thanks so much !

FYI: the wales collector who owns that Miura has a famous Italian car repair and restoration shop and recently started his own you tube channel which is terrific👍.

Love it! Great moments in there. Thanks!

In 1987 I restored a red 1968 Cooper "S" to accurately replicate HMP729G. Luckily, most of the parts were obtainable even without the internet.

Very good, genuinely interesting and different to other channels.

I was wondering a while back, how come I kept humming Days like these from the intro? I hadn't seen The Italian Job for ages or even thought about it. Went on for weeks, then one afternoon I went for a pint in my local pub. I heard that theme tune. The one armed bandit slot machine was Italian job based, had all the lines from the film I knew, but today nobody was in the pub and when nobody was playing the machine it quietly kicked into that theme song. You made my day saying those amazing cars survived, it's always depressed me to think they were destroyed. Micheal Caine was asked bout those cars, he said he hated cars and driving.

A very good collection of curious facts. However... The Mini DID have a differential. All cars (apart from ancient chain-drive monsters) have a differential. And... Even back in the day, people who raced and rallied Minis had trouble with the differential. So... It makes sense that a gang of thieves who have been ragging Coopers to practise their moves would have to work on the diffs and gearboxes.

great stuff! Thanks!

The doors off scene was filmed at crystal palace sports centre .

Dad's Army? Bit odd I know, but they made a movie of the series and I loved it 🙂🙂

A great video thank you :)

My favourite movie.

Great video my favourite film ever

You need to mention the classic Caterpillar D7 that stops the Miura dead and pushes it over the cliff

I loved the movie. I have a 2013 mini convertible. Would love to be a part of a charity Talley here in the states

Thank you for your wonderful contribution to cinema facts/trivia on this channel! I understand the difficulties in continuing such endeavors, but just wanted to say I've really enjoyed the ride!

"Well look happy, you stupid bastards! We won, didn't we?"

William Hartnell (1st Dr who) has the same illness during his time of Dr Who

I read about BMC not wanting to provide Minis: The movie's producers of course pointed out that the motor manufacturer would benefit through product placement. Incomprehensively the manufacturer's representative countered: 'But how will the viewer know it's a Mini?'

Daimler at 7:45 .... dame-ler .... not Dime-ler

RIP. A million movies. Only 52 videos.

When the Italian Spanish and French had trouble or strikes their Governments backed the industry. In Britain the car manufacturers were sent to the wall by the Tories, which was really short sighted.

The roof to roof jump worked because the minis were equipped with Austin 1800 engines.

well this was quite good , but there was still b s in it the daimler limo was owned by blenhiem location hire and had been for some time now it may have been the pakistani , car but it wasnt before the film or during it , i remember it was used by richard harris , pior to the italian job , i drove that many times , including the minis as i and others fitted the roll over bars , sump guards seat belts , and the many super oscar lights that came from cibie uk, the light bars were aley as well as the rollover cage , the gold was wooden block painted gold , they were in our shop for maybe a year after the film but i should should have acquired a few .

the license plates on the minis were genuine mini license plates, the links to the letters as claimed in this video are an urban myth.....none of the original movie minis exist, tho all their license plates were held on retention and sold at an auction in the early 2000s in the UK, all the movie license plates, once licensed to original minis, are now on replica italian job minis.,the bus survived the movie and was sold to a small bus company in scotland in the 1970s who welded the back doors together and reused the vehicle as a school bus until it was scrapped in the 1980s.., the pakistani ambassadors car also doubles for HMP1 the prison transport of mr bridger.. when the e type gets crushed, caine mouths the words "youve just lost him his no claims bonous", but, it was overdubbed for the americans to "youve just lost him his insurance bonous".

But....It's a coach that they used NOT A BLOODY BUS !!

20:00 - 20:10 Is the only thing stopping this being a 100% decent video. (Btw, just for the record, I ain't got no problems with Steve Coogan)

This movie is awesome. Favorite of my Dad and mine too

10:50 This maybe wasn't deliberate - in Italian, one word for "car" is "macchina", which also means "machine". Also, the 2003 film doesn't exist.

Mill An not Mil arn Fee At not Fee Art Dame ler not Dime lar Cov ent ree not Cove entry Also if you look on the roof top jump, there are Lorries underneath with padded tops incase the Minis fell off. Interesting video 👌🏻 20:46 is Delboys Relient Regal from Only Fools and Horses. 👍🏻

10:40 the red minis drivers door flys open

R.I.P.

The producer had a get away car and a plane lined up that day so he could get out of Italy.

Not a lot of people know that.

You just cost him his insurance bonus!

Fiat didn't agree to donate Lamborghinis. There has never been a link between the two companies

can you make 50 facts about Miracle on 34th Street

having a diff at the rear as well would also applly to a 2wd rwd car (i am now 63 wich means i was about 10 when me and my dad first watched this film) he then had an international rally licence - i wonder what kind of car he drove?

The traffic jam was real, They are not payed Statists ! True brittish movie!

16:52 THIS SOUNDS PERFECT. WHY DIDN'T WE THIS ENDING 😭 😡? AT LEAST THE 2003 REMAKE HAD A TON TIMES BETTER ONE.

Yes.This was all very well and good as usual. But who was the blond in the bikini sitting at the outdoor cafe at the :46 second mark? :)

One more fact is that a BMW is not in anyway a Mini just because you buy the name Mini.

I had the ps1 game!

You mention the rear differential as being a problem in the script/movie as the cars were fwd. But even in the clip you've included the character says 'rossa is having trouble with his differential'. You even quote them as such. No one says 'rear'. Yet your criticism is that fwd cars don't have a rear differential, which they don't. But they *DO* have a differential at the front. So the script makes perfect sense. The script only has a problem if you say *rear* diff, but as no one does I don't understand why you raise it like there is a problem.

The winning solution - with the smashed windows and ballast rocks etc. - is actually pretty good, apart from one element: it's not that easy to "drain" the fuel tank of a bus unless you really know what you are doing. It involves either siphoning it off (time-consuming and disgusting) or drilling holes in the right places (time-consuming and involves equipment). Apart from that, jolly good.

It's been a year so please some more content as where all waiting with baited breath. You simply do not get films of these calibres any more.

You dont make videos any more?

It actually says 'Osgood is God', not 'Osgood is Good'.

So for the gold part, you don’t want to be calculating the weight of the gold by the price of it during 1969, yeah ok $4m is a nice figure but look at the picture. Gold bars are a standard weight and size, and they weight 14kg or approx 28 pounds each. Now have a look at the picture and work out how many bars you can see. I’m pretty certain that amount of gold would weight more than the figure you’ve given.

Then why did you make the video public..

Why don't you post new videos?? Do you got work or something??

I’ve never ever heard the part about the tv series in any of the documentaries I’ve seen which included the writer and producer. As such, I don’t believe that. And Hazel Collinson worked a few desks down from me In the office I worked at in the late 90s. I spoke to her a few times but never knew who she was until years later when an ex-colleague told me. Now I remember her face of course. And they filmed in Turin because Turin is a ‘factory’ town, Fiat pumps millions into the city and they were happy for the production to occur there because of the publicity. And the ‘machina’ story is well documented to be a misunderstanding This commentary is so full of holes.

I absolutely love 'The Italian Job'. But it always irks me as to the amount of times certain lines of dialogue are repeated. Very annoying.

Jeff, why did you quit? Did you die? Say nothing if the answer is yes.

Coventry is not pronounced like that

Hope the yanks don't make a series of The Italian Job look how they fucked up the remake

what happened to this channel?

I think the channel owner died from covid 😢

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If you dont need to know then why have you bothered to show them?🫣🫣🤣🤣