History Main / TheItalianJob

** In fact Averted: The film did originally approach Mini, and after much effort convinced them to part with 6. Other 9 or so used had to be bought.

** In fact Averted: The film did originally approach

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Mr. Bridger's "feast".
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The van, or more specifically Croker's line.

* EarWorm: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5MBjkP1yQ&feature=related "Self Preservation Society"]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: The governor of the prison is [[DadsArmy Sergeant Wilson]], who briefly appears to give an AsideGlance to the audience when Mr. Bridger enters his office to complain about Charlie breaking into his toilet.

* MemeticMutation: That line regarding the van, its primary apertures, and the superfluity of explosives to requirement.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Numerous endings were considered. In an interview, Michael Caine said that one was [[spoiler: balancing the cliffhanging bus by burning off all the fuel]] only for [[spoiler: the Mafia to turn up and reclaim the gold.]] Others included the gold [[spoiler: being safely transported to Geneva]] or [[spoiler: getting all the way to England, only to be returned to the Mafia as part of a compromise]].
** A few original lines were later taken out of the movie when the director realized that not many non-Brits would understand them, one regarding "someone from the smokes sticking his bugle in" on Charlie's operation. In American english, the line means that someone was worried that someone else from London would stick his nose into their business.

* BadassDriver (A number of characters)

* 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)

* EvilVersusEvil (the "good guys" are English criminals and the [[DesignatedVillain "villains"]] are the Italian Mafia)
* {{Gayngster}} (Camp Freddy [[GangOfHats and his gang]], and arguably Mr. Bridger too, given Noel Coward's real life sexual preference)

* StuffBlowingUp (a certain van)

* TelevisionGeography (the car chase makes no sense geographically, it's just designed to [[SceneryPorn show off Turin]])

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Numerous endings were considered, including ones where the gold [[spoiler: makes it safely to Geneva]] and another where it's [[spoiler: all given to the Mafia as part of a compromise]].

* EveryCarIsAPinto: Numerous cars get pushed over cliffs. None of them explode except for the very last one, which goes up massively and rather spontaneously.

-->'''Manager:''' "You must have shot an ''awful'' lot of tigers, sir."
-->'''Croker:''' "Yes, I used a machine gun."

* LiteralCliffHanger ("Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea! Err...")

* LuxuryPrisonSuite (Mr. Bridger's situation)

* RuthlessForeignGangsters: TheMafia are presented this way, although technically, it is the British criminals who are muscling in on them and it's implied that the theft will destabilise the Italian economy.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Numerous endings were considered, including one where Caine's character switches on the bus engine, stays there for four hours until the fuel runs out, and then deliberately throws the gold out.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: the ending was originally intended to have MichaelCaine switch on the buses engine and stay there for four hours until the fuel ran out, and delibaratly throw the gold out.

* HollywoodHacking: Adverted for once, as several of the characters had to sneak into the traffic control center and physically change a computer reel.

* RuthlessForeignGangsters: TheMafia are presented this way, although technically, it is the British criminals who are muscling in on them.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: the ending was originally intended to have Michael Caine switch on the buses engine and stay there for four hours until the fuel ran out, and delibaratly throw the gold out.

This film contains examples of:

* 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.

** Fiat still pops up in several places in the movie however. Tthe Minis briefly take cover among some Fiat 500s at a dealership, and later take a lap on the Fiat Lingotto factory rooftop test track.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Get your skates on, mate"]]

[[caption-width-right:350:This is the Self-Preservation Society]]

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A 1969 film starring Michael Caine, 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.

A highly popular British film and often repeated on TV.

* HeyItsThatGuy: The governor of the prison is [[DadsArmy Sergeant Wilson]], who briefly appears to give an AsideGlance to the audience when Mr. Bridger enters his office to complain about Charlies breaking into his toilet.

* HeyItsThatGuy: The governor of the prison is [[DadsArmy Sergeant Wilson]], who briefly appears to give an AsideGlance to the audience when Mr. Bridge enters his office.

* HeyItsThatGuy: The governor of the prison is [[DadsArmy Sergeant Wilson]], who briefly appears to give an AsideGlance to the audience.

* CliffhangerEnding: [[spoler: Literally.]]

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

* Whatcouldhavebeen: the ending was originally intended to have Michael Caine switch on the buses engine and stay there for four hours until the fuel ran out, and delibaratly throw the gold out.

* CoolCar: This movie has a Lamborghini Miura, an Aston Martin DB4, two Jaguar E-types, several Alfa Romeo police cars, a bus with two axels in the front, and of course, the three Mini Cooper S's which out-drive them all.