Mum's Monday: The Italian Job (1969)

The start of this film is intriguing, but it is nice to see the men lay/roll a wreath down the mountain.

So Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) is out, I mean back.

And so the Italian Job planning begins to get ‘Four million dollars through a traffic jam’ genius.

Sadly, it seems everyone has a price, Professor Simon Peach (Benny Hill) likes big women, so it was easy to get an expert in computers.

You know what they say ‘Practice makes perfect’ but how long do you practice for? And the doors have been blown off, well along with everything else on the van. It is amusing to watch.

I like how they interweaved a funeral speech by Mr. Bridger (Noel Coward) into a speech about getting the job done. The script is well done.

And so the actual job begins, after a demonstration from the mafia, they don’t approve and sadly, some nice cars had to suffer.

Lorna (Maggie Blye), Charlie’s girl friend had one thing to do, just walk to the plane and not draw attention to herself. Oh dear that didn’t go to plan it is fun to watch though.

It is amusing to watch the scenes where Professor Peach, after getting acquainted with an Italian lady, then gets arrested.

When planning a robbery, this film high lights that people have issues, but they can’t all sit up front so they are all sitting in the back. Can you really just tell someone they won’t have a migraine or won’t be sick, you can tell them to be quiet in a way.

The scenes where there is just beeping cars and the reel controlling the traffic lights are all that is needed. We see what is happening so doesn’t need anymore.

A poorly parked police car and a ram raiding lorry makes for an amusing scene. Well not for the owner of the police car, he didn’t look happy.

The stunt driving mini scenes are fun to watch and yes cleaning the floor is fruitless, he can retrieve his cloth he threw down later on. The stunt mini scenes continue. It was nice to put in the script that one of the mini drivers or passenger, whilst going down the church steps whilst a wedding is taking place, shouts ‘Good luck’.

Yes, the police are getting ‘Rather close’, who’d have thought a gold robber would have such a posh voice. It is amusing to hear him say his lines and it adds to the comedic element.

It is fun to watch the minis in the tunnel, what happened to the police car was inevitable, still funny though.

It was cute to see the three minis come out of a side road and following the bus, they are nifty little vehicles.

This is a fast paced film and how all the piece’s slot together is remarkable, they weren’t just making a film they were planning the robbery and the getaway.

This film is a prime example of why you shouldn’t count your chickens before they are hatched. Just when you think this film is over, I wonder how the ‘Self Preservation Society’ are going to get out of this almighty, literal cliff hanger.