History Film / TheItalianJob1969

* TheCameo: Henry [=McGee=] from ''TheBennyHillShow'' as Charlie's tailor.

** ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Brits, since they don't use guns nor kill a single person during the entire heist.

* {{Gayngster}}: Camp Freddy [[GangOfHats and his gang]], and arguably Mr. Bridger too, given NoelCoward's real life sexual preference.
** Mr Bridger's 'assistant' was Coward's real life partner. Because Coward had started his descent into dementia by theis point, his partner was there to help him, and provide a familiar face.

* HaveAGayOldTime: "Camp Freddy, everybody in the ''world'' is bent![[labelnote:Explanation]]"Bent" in this case means "crooked."[[/labelnote]]" Didn't help that the line was delivered by NoelCoward...

* ICallItVera: Possibly an Ur-Example, Charlie refers to his grappling hook as "Hazel".

* LiteralCliffHanger: "Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea! Err..."
** The Royal Society of Chemistry ran a competition to solve that one- [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7845533.stm this was the result]].
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Mr. Bridger's situation

* ProductPlacement: Subverted. Fiat offered "hero" cars for the chase scenes, but the producers went with (purchased) Minis instead for [[UsefulNotesOnBritain patriotic reasons]].
** It goes further than that. Every single vehicle used by Croker's Gang was Made in Britain.
** Fiat still pops up in several places in the movie however. The Minis briefly take cover among some Fiat 500s at a dealership, and later take a lap on the Fiat Lingotto factory rooftop test track.
*** Fiat is explicitly mentioned in the movie, though - the gold Croker stole belonged to them.
** Inverted in another instance: The film originally ''approached'' BMC (the manufacturers of the Mini at the time), and after much effort convinced them to part with 6. Other 9 or so used had to be bought.
* RefugeInAudacity: Charlie breaks back into the same prison he's just been released from, armed only with a crowbar and grappling hook [[ICallItVera "Hazel"]] and somehow manages to get inside Bridger's locked Private Bathroom, simply to tell him his plan... and then leaves, with ''no-one ever the wiser.''

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Professor gets pinched by the Polizia for harassing a "BIG Woman!" on a tram, then disappears from the rest of the film and we never find out what happened to him. No doubt however, it was probably hilarious.

* WickedCultured: Mr Bridger.

* YesMan: Bill.
** Taking a [[DrinkingGame drink]] everytime he says "Yes, Charlie", is ''not'' recommended.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The interior of the prison is actually a jail in Dublin.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The interior of the jail is actually a prison in Dublin.

** In fact Averted: The film did originally approach BMC (the manufacturers of the Mini at the time), and after much effort convinced them to part with 6. Other 9 or so used had to be bought.

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Charlie, who gets caught "on the job" with 3 naked women, by his girlfriend. Ironically the night before she let him sleep with several other women including her as his present for leaving prison.

* MoodWhiplash: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKqCtOUeXbY&feature=related impossibly stylish intro]] where you're cruising around the [[SceneryPorn beautiful Alps]] in your [[CoolCar Lamborghini]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Miura Miura]], set to the dulcet tones of Matt Monro... then KABOOM.

* AffablyEvil: Mr Bridger especially, who is polite and well mannered at all times. He is, however, such a ruthless criminal mastermind that he's got the entire prison - including the Wardens - terrified of him.

* AffablyEvil: Mr Bridger especially, who is polite and well mannered at all times. He is however such a ruthless criminal mastermind, he's got the entire prison including the Wardens terrified of him.

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Charlie, who gets caught "on the job" with 3 naked women, by his girlfriend.
** As Charlie attempts to point out, she did let him sleep with several women at once, including her, when he got out of the nick?! Apparently, that was a ''[[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain one time treat!]]''

* CoolCar: This movie has a Lamborghini Miura, an Aston Martin [=DB4=], two Jaguar E-types, several Alfa Romeo police cars, a Bedford VAL coach, and of course, the three Mini Cooper S's which out-drive them all.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The iconic film poster features a naked woman, money, and a gun as a means of attracting the audience, and also implies more romance and violence than the film actually has.
** Although to be fair, the (soon to be) naked woman and gun ''do'' make a brief appearance in an early scene.
** It should be noted that is the ''American'' poster. The iconic ''British'' poster features the three [[CoolCar Mini's]]. ''Which are much sexier''.

* HaveAGayOldTime: "Camp Freddy, everybody in the ''world'' is bent!" Didn't help that the line was delivered by NoelCoward...

* NoEnding

** The gangsters are last seen trying to find out how Charlie's gang planned to get out of the traffic jam. They're left as {{Karma Houdini}}s.

A highly popular British film and often repeated on TV. Years later an episode of ''MacGyver'', "Thief of Budapest", lifted most of the film's iconic car chase, using creative editing to transpose it from Turin to Hungary!

A 1969 film starring MichaelCaine, involving him being let out of prison and gathering a gang of bank robbers together to rob a van full of gold. Involves one of the best car chases in cinema (with Mini Coopers) and one of the most famous lines in cinema, when someone uses slightly too much explosive on a van during a test and is reminded [[MemeticMutation "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"]]

* StealTheSurroundings: The crew does this twice: once with a standard safe and once with an entire armored truck.
* StuffBlowingUp: A certain van.

A 1969 film starring MichaelCaine, involving him being let out of prison and gathering a gang of bank robbers together to rob a van full of gold. Involves one of the best car chases in cinema (with Mini Coopers) and one of the most famous lines in cinema, when someone uses slightly too much explosive on a van during a test.

!!This film contains examples of:

->''"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"''

** Bent in this context means 'crooked'. It's normal slang and unlikely the second allusion would have been meant.

''For the 2003 film, see [[TheItalianJob2003 here]].''

* BlackAndGreyMorality: The AffablyEvil Brits and the EvillyAffable Mafia.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Bridger clearly approves of Charlie's plan for a heist and is impressed how he managed to break into the prison he'd just been released from, ''[[RefugeInAudacity without anyone noticing!]]'' Nonetheless, he has him beaten up, because one simply does not barge into another man's private ''toilet!''

* HonourBeforeReason: Why Bridger has Charlie beaten up for [[FelonyMisdemeanour breaking into his toilet]].

* HonourBeforeReason: Despite being clearly impressed with Charlie's level of resourcefulness, cunning and ingenuity in breaking ''into'' prison simply to discuss his plan with him, Bridger ''still'' sends his cronies to beat him up, simply because one does '''[[SeriousBusiness not]]''' interrupt an Englishmen wishing to use the toilet!
** Of course, after that unpleasantness is over with, he freely gives Charlie his [[PetTheDog full backing]].