Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Italian Job - Trailer (1969)

The Italian Job - Trailer (1969)

Join Michael Caine and his gang of crooks for the ultimate British caper movie packed with fast cars, beautiful girls and swinging 60's action. The Italian Job 40th Anniversary Special Edition blows the doors off with an astonishing array of brand new extras including exclusive interviews with Michael Caine, Quincy Jones and others as they tell us what really happened making The Italian Job. Plus a host of stunts, Minis and more in a thrilling set of definitive documentaries and commentaries. United Kingdom Certificate: PG Mild violence, language and sex references 9 out of 10 My thoughts: Before I wised up and realised that cars were the spawn of the Devil and responsible for the political, environmental and social decline of our world, I was a bit obsessed with them. In my early teens I'd buy Motor magazine every week; I'd send off for reviews of cars from other magazines too, just so I could spend hours and hours comparing them. I went to the Motor Show. I had just about ! every pack of Top Trump cards you could get that were about cars. I had about 50 Matchbox toy cars and regularly used to run them along a section of track that started at my bedroom window (on the first floor) and went down into the garden below, before carefully putting them back in the box in the order of ones that got the furthest down the track. (I must have got a lot of exercise keep running up and down the stairs and into the garden, if I did that each time for all 50.) I had a Saturday and ...





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