Sunday, 2 October 2011

The Italian Job(1969)




A one great movie of 1969, One day a man drives through the Italian Alps, enters a dark tunnel, and shocks, he crashes and hit the bulldozer that cause of his death. A bulldozer pulls the car from the tunnel and dumps them down a steep alpine gorge. Sometime later dapper mobster Charlie Crooker is released from prison. He soon meets with the widow of his friend and fellow thief Roger Beckermann, victim of the Miura crash. She gives Croker her husband's plans for the robbery that attracted the attention of the Italian Mafia. The plans outline a way to rob the payroll of Turin-based automaker Fiat, and spirit it out of Italy.
Croker decides to continue the plan despite the risks, but he needs a big group of gang that has tools. After he breaks into jail he meets Mr. Bridger a criminal who runs a gangland empire from prison. Croker explains "the Italian Job" but Bridger dismisses the plan out of hand, and indeed orders Croker be given "a good going-over" for disturbing his privacy. Bridger changes his mind shortly after, when it is announced that China is delivering a consignment of gold to Turin, as down-payment to Fiat for the building of a car factory. With this backing, Croker assembles a group including computer expert Professor Peach, electronics handler Birkinshaw and several getaway drivers. Inside, the gang transfers the gold to the Minis. Mafioso Altabani recognises that "If they planned this traffic jam, then they must have planned a way out of it." The three Minis race through the shopping arcades of the Via Roma, up the sail-like roof of the Palazzo a Vela, around the rooftop test track of the Fiat Lingotto factory and down the steps of the Gran Madre di Dio church while a wedding is in progress. The gang escapes by driving through large sewer pipes, throwing off the police. The gang make their final getaway on a six-wheeled Harrington Legionnaire-bodied Bedford Val coach, driving up a ramp on the back while the coach is travelling. Once the gold has been unloaded, the gang push the Minis out of the coach as it negotiates hairpin bends in the Alps.

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