QUINCY JONES HAS such a great imagination. The opening song is just brilliant. Thank you Quincy Jones and Matt Monroe for this beautiful song. 1969 was the year but that song,"ON Days Like These", is timeless.
It’s hard to express the effect this film had on a school boy back in the seventies. So much so that the school boy, who’s now in his fifties, recently visited Turin just to see the locations of the film.
A fascinating insight into an absolute classic film. Especially the part where Peter never forgot the kindness Noel had shown him, when he was broken, an in an orphanage!
This "making of" was just fantastic; I loved every minute of it! I first saw "The Italian Job" on some Saturday afternoon on TV in America in about 1979. I think I STILL remember the TV Guide description: "The Italian Job (1969) English. Fine stunt driving highlights this humorous heist yarn filmed in Turin, Italy". I thought, "hmm, sounds interesting, I guess I'll watch that". I did and found the entire movie to be very interesting, fun, and memorable. It made me a fan of Michael Caine and Minis. And some day I'd like to visit Turin, Italy. There's no one aspect of this movie that's greater than any other. All of it is well done, generally lighthearted, and lots of fun. I can easily see why it has cult status in the UK, as well it should.
so glad to find this. Saw The Italian Job as like a 10 year old on news year's eve television around 1971 and took me 20 years to find out the actual title
I saw the film for the first time just before I saw the 2003 remake. It be Lew my mind. After watching this, the talent and expertise and the luck that brought them together, I wish I saw this when I was younger. Love it.
you have to remember now for car jumps and stunts they use model cars cameras and computers, in 1969 not many people had heard of computers. - they used real cars and real drivers.
Saw it in '71 in The Studio's 1 & 2 Newport with my dad. The opening credits with Matt Monro singing brilliantly put a shiver up my spine which has never gone away. A superb British movie from beginning to end. Sadly , no mention of Tony Beckley's scene stealing performance as Camp Freddie. Caine was superb....the camera loves him.
Fucking Brilliant. My favourite film anyway but just watched this making of....absolutely loved it. How nice to see warm, funny, honest irrelevance and fun rather than the usual studio bollocks eh? This documentary is everything's The film itself is. Just checked and Big Q and Mr.Micklewhite truly are celestial brothers. I fuckibg love that. 😊🇺🇸🇬🇧❤👍
WOW!!! This is fascinating. I never saw "The Italian Job" for the longest time (and I mean this original, and not the other more recent that I have never bothered with). But when it was out on DVD, I watched it for the first of many times in the 2000s. I'm never sure why I missed it on American TV / Cable over the decades. And to think that Robert Evans was so amendable and trusting to Troy Kennedy Martin's concept and not the stereotypical clueless Hollywood mohul stomping all over a British concept by fiddling with it to "Americanize" it speaks volumes of Mr. Evans wisdom. I never knew much about Mr. Evans, except I thought his skin and hair were rather strangely affected, but obviously, looks are deceiving and there is real substance behind him. To back off Robert Redford so easily and stick with Mr. Martin's concept of Michael Caine shows real intelligence. This story behind the picture shows how everyone had respect for one another, and this cooperation resulted in a classic film!
1:21:23 His wife says here that Peter Collinson died aged "not quite 41", which means that both Wikipedia and IMDb have got their dates wrong for him. They both say April 1936- Dec 1980. ie a solid 44.
Fantastic video. I can honestly say that ive grown up watching this film. I remember being knee high to a mini cooper's minilight wheel not wanting to watch when the mini's are pushed out of the coach, as even then, a mini was one of my favourite cars. Plus it was always shown on British tv at Christmas/new year, as well as The Great escape, wierdly, strange choices for tv channels to put on, given the time of year. But when there's only 3 channels to watch, as it was in the 70's its not hard to see why its so loved. Also the bit when its said that the Aston Martin was totally wrecked contradicts what other "Italian job" documentaries have said, also doesn't tally with the renowned Italian job expert Matthew Field who wrote the excellent Italian Job encyclopaedia. (its huge, size of an old atlas and ive got a copy!!) Plus according to the DVLA data base 163 ELT is still a 1962 Aston Martin with road tax paid until November this year. Lastly anybody who thinks the 2003 Italian Job rehash was a film worthy of the name doesn't have a clue, they couldn't even do the simple task of keeping the modern mini's (school buses in size comparison) colours in order throughout the film unlike the original. Long live Charlie croker!!
"Look neither to the right, nor to the left, just straight ahead" Screams - "I LOVE YOU CHARLIE" "Get on the plane... GET on the plane!" Every part of this film is fantastic! "Will it hold the weight?.... will it hold the weight?" Bill "We couldn't get gold yet so we're using lead" :) or something like that....
The rhythm played with their canteens is quite a well known English chant in football stadiums; both home county teams and England’s championship games :)
Hi Ollie - yes I realised that. I just thought they’d changed the chant to “Brid-ger” for this particular scene because it does make more sense as Noel Coward walks down the steps acknowledging the praise!
Well, I feel REALLY dumb now! I thought they were chanting, "Caesar!", as in Mister Bridger is the supreme ruler of the prison and the crime world. I LOVE the film, but I'm an American, so maybe there's bits in the picture that I don't completely understand.
Good thing thing this video is subtitled, for those of us who only speak American. The "Making of" featurette -- is almost as long as the movie itself.
Culturally there is a gap as wide as the Atlantic between a film like TIJ and most American audiences, both in humour and language. Unsurprising that TIJ wasnt a success in the US - the surprise would have been if it had been a box-office success. The same is often true in reverse. Deep South accents are as undecipherable as any Cockney rhyming slang....
'...and I'm looking for a small blonde scrubber.' I laughed out loud at that! Poor Hazel, totally undeserved! Great doco thank you but the picture seems very dark to me?
What an awesome making-of documentary. So many of these things are pretty dull; this one makes the movie even better - in so many ways. Quincy Jones wrote Self Preservation Society?! (For instance ;)
that blew my bloody doors off; in Kilmainham ! never knew that. what did they get for that, a bit of remission ?..........although i know now a lot of irish folk support england, as do a lot of english support d'orish when they play. (obv if you got a bomb under yer jam jar, or copped one from a sniper in the Divis, ya'd think different.)
I'm sure the Italian job was a happy accident . It was a miracle it wasn't Americanised . It just worked as well as it did cause of Michael and the writers and stunts and English humour .
I think BMC were very astute. They'd get the publicity anyway, so why pay out a single penny, or provide any minis? Would it have changed the film in any way if they had given the crew any minis for free?
Robert Redford would of ruined it. Steve McQueen or Paul Newman would of been a better choice however why bring in an American into a British film or vice versa. At least as the lead role, unless it's about that nationality in a foreign country, why have the protaganist played by someone like that.
They could of done a follow up of this were a bus full of big fat women turn up on a hen do and they ballance the bus up on one condition they have to plough through them ha ha ha and Michael Cain sez fk that let the coach go over ha ha ha
and finally remember one crucial Fact......without Raf Vallone, Rossano Brazzi and the Benevolance of Gianni Agnelli this Movie could never took Place...the rest is History
I've never loved this film the way the men in my life do, but that opening scene - Matt Monro, Rossano Brazzi, that scenery - is one of my favourite film sequences ever.
The Best British movie ever....even more powerfull than James Bond Legacy ........I remember to watch it with my dad before he passad away and fallen in love at once....it was the year 1991 and so was the time to move in London and changed myy Life for good......We own to the Brits & British Directors a lots of Emotions and the best Memories in Movie's making History.
david lyon Mark Walbergs movie was good in and of it self. But the originals as and is much better. Too bad they can’t do a sequel of the original today with the same actors. ☹️
As they said Redford was the flavor of the week (year, whatever) Caine (Maurice Micklewhite, whatever) is the only way this timeless classic could've happened
@@edwardhalpin7503 A bit like how Martin Freeman was flavor of the week and a vehicle was needed for Mos Def, so they cast them both in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie with no regard for their suitability in those roles, and they ruined the movie.
A Great film showing G.B. where we stood in the swinging 60s ... I have a question, in regard to the time of filming in Italy? was that in 1968 as England played in The European Championship Finals (in Italy) I ask this in regard to The England football supporters scenes ?
Charlie is not BUYING the Aston, he's paying for maintenance and storage for three years while he was in prison. He says something like, "it's been so long since I've been in this car". He makes up the excuse about the engine needing more air through the second carburetor so that he, not the garage man, can go under the hood (bonnet). Charlie then very subtly pulls out a stash of money that has been hidden in the car for three years. That way, when the man tells him the cost for getting his car out of storage, Charlie has the money to pay him. The reason the garage man seems shocked is both that Charlie can so easily pay him such a large amount, and the comment about "I used a machine gun".
...that was bloody fantastic. It's a film that I MUST watch at least once a year...
So pleased that my Dad Laurie Clarkson worked on this film as a Sound Recordist. This has to be one of my favourite films.
QUINCY JONES HAS such a great imagination. The opening song is just brilliant. Thank you Quincy Jones and Matt Monroe for this beautiful song. 1969 was the year but that song,"ON Days Like These", is timeless.
Matt Monro
RIP Tony Beckley as Camp Freddie.
Absolutely brilliant actor.
PEACE, LOVE & EQUALITY.
Absolutely correct Euan. Like his contemporary Ian Hendry , Beckly had the acting chops and could steal every scene he was in . The camera loved him.
He was class in Get Carter too. Proper menacing!
Remember watching this, one Sunday afternoon with my late Dad. Back in 70's
This is bloody brilliant. Great insight into so many aspects. The background of the prison is incredible, unbelievable and downright dramatic.
It’s hard to express the effect this film had on a school boy back in the seventies. So much so that the school boy, who’s now in his fifties, recently visited Turin just to see the locations of the film.
Me too
Do you have any clue where the Motorway/Highway is where they drive the Mini's into the back of the bus? Thanks.
Makes sense to me. Either you loves cars or couldn't care less
@@Matt-rq3bu it's explained in the extra features of the dvd. Can't remember where it was, but it was still under construction
@@themightyimp08 Ok, thanks.
A fascinating insight into an absolute classic film.
Especially the part where Peter never forgot the kindness Noel had shown him, when he was broken, an in an orphanage!
This "making of" was just fantastic; I loved every minute of it! I first saw "The Italian Job" on some Saturday afternoon on TV in America in about 1979. I think I STILL remember the TV Guide description: "The Italian Job (1969) English. Fine stunt driving highlights this humorous heist yarn filmed in Turin, Italy". I thought, "hmm, sounds interesting, I guess I'll watch that". I did and found the entire movie to be very interesting, fun, and memorable. It made me a fan of Michael Caine and Minis. And some day I'd like to visit Turin, Italy. There's no one aspect of this movie that's greater than any other. All of it is well done, generally lighthearted, and lots of fun. I can easily see why it has cult status in the UK, as well it should.
Surprised how happy Turin was given how the movie is basically about nicking stuff from hapless Italians
Access to the FeAT factory (Lingotto) is still possible now a shopping arcade and hotel you can walk around the race track on top.
My favourite film
What a cast
And all those fab cars both British and Italian
so glad to find this. Saw The Italian Job as like a 10 year old on news year's eve television around 1971 and took me 20 years to find out the actual title
Fantastic documentary one of the best seen of a brilliant film! 👍
Never gets old just gets better with age
I saw the film for the first time just before I saw the 2003 remake. It be Lew my mind.
After watching this, the talent and expertise and the luck that brought them together, I wish I saw this when I was younger.
Love it.
you have to remember now for car jumps and stunts they use model cars cameras and computers, in 1969 not many people had heard of computers. - they used real cars and real drivers.
Maggie Blye was so gorgeous in The Italian Job. Also in Hombre. Gone too soon. RIP.
Saw it in '71 in The Studio's 1 & 2 Newport with my dad. The opening credits with Matt Monro singing brilliantly put a shiver up my spine which has never gone away. A superb British movie from beginning to end.
Sadly , no mention of Tony Beckley's scene stealing performance as Camp Freddie.
Caine was superb....the camera loves him.
The Stelvio pass that the Muria descends is worth doing at a slower speed
@@frostyfrost4094 Indeed .
To all the people who made the film possible thank you and I mean everybody
Thank you, a childhood favorite
Fucking Brilliant. My favourite film anyway but just watched this making of....absolutely loved it. How nice to see warm, funny, honest irrelevance and fun rather than the usual studio bollocks eh? This documentary is everything's The film itself is. Just checked and Big Q and Mr.Micklewhite truly are celestial brothers. I fuckibg love that. 😊🇺🇸🇬🇧❤👍
Amazing docu! Thanks for sharing 🙂
WOW!!! This is fascinating. I never saw "The Italian Job" for the longest time (and I mean this original, and not the other more recent that I have never bothered with). But when it was out on DVD, I watched it for the first of many times in the 2000s. I'm never sure why I missed it on American TV / Cable over the decades. And to think that Robert Evans was so amendable and trusting to Troy Kennedy Martin's concept and not the stereotypical clueless Hollywood mohul stomping all over a British concept by fiddling with it to "Americanize" it speaks volumes of Mr. Evans wisdom. I never knew much about Mr. Evans, except I thought his skin and hair were rather strangely affected, but obviously, looks are deceiving and there is real substance behind him. To back off Robert Redford so easily and stick with Mr. Martin's concept of Michael Caine shows real intelligence. This story behind the picture shows how everyone had respect for one another, and this cooperation resulted in a classic film!
Love this film and had the pleasure of working with Hazel and Tara back in the 1990's at a company in Savile Row.
Shame they didn’t make part two
1:21:23 His wife says here that Peter Collinson died aged "not quite 41", which means that both Wikipedia and IMDb have got their dates wrong for him. They both say April 1936- Dec 1980. ie a solid 44.
Fantastic video. I can honestly say that ive grown up watching this film. I remember being knee high to a mini cooper's minilight wheel not wanting to watch when the mini's are pushed out of the coach, as even then, a mini was one of my favourite cars. Plus it was always shown on British tv at Christmas/new year, as well as The Great escape, wierdly, strange choices for tv channels to put on, given the time of year. But when there's only 3 channels to watch, as it was in the 70's its not hard to see why its so loved. Also the bit when its said that the Aston Martin was totally wrecked contradicts what other "Italian job" documentaries have said, also doesn't tally with the renowned Italian job expert Matthew Field who wrote the excellent Italian Job encyclopaedia. (its huge, size of an old atlas and ive got a copy!!) Plus according to the DVLA data base 163 ELT is still a 1962 Aston Martin with road tax paid until November this year. Lastly anybody who thinks the 2003 Italian Job rehash was a film worthy of the name doesn't have a clue, they couldn't even do the simple task of keeping the modern mini's (school buses in size comparison) colours in order throughout the film unlike the original. Long live Charlie croker!!
"Get the wheels in line GET THE WHEELS IN LINE"
Oh really? Like that's not a given.
"Look neither to the right, nor to the left, just straight ahead"
Screams - "I LOVE YOU CHARLIE"
"Get on the plane... GET on the plane!"
Every part of this film is fantastic!
"Will it hold the weight?.... will it hold the weight?"
Bill "We couldn't get gold yet so we're using lead" :)
or something like that....
I love this film❤❤❤
It was a great fun film, the ending though disappointing was in retrospec ahead of its time.
Amazing to see and hear “The kid stays in the picture” Robert Evans …
39.10: I’d always thought they were chanting “BRID-GER”, not “Eng-land”.
Oh well, I’ll bow to Michael Caine’s superior knowledge!
The rhythm played with their canteens is quite a well known English chant in football stadiums; both home county teams and England’s championship games :)
Hi Ollie - yes I realised that. I just thought they’d changed the chant to “Brid-ger” for this particular scene because it does make more sense as Noel Coward walks down the steps acknowledging the praise!
@@andrewrobinson8305 I do apologise ha! In fact, it’s on TV at that scene now and I think you’re right, they have changed it to ‘Brid-ger’! :)
Well, I feel REALLY dumb now! I thought they were chanting, "Caesar!", as in Mister Bridger is the supreme ruler of the prison and the crime world. I LOVE the film, but I'm an American, so maybe there's bits in the picture that I don't completely understand.
@@ollieclixby3199 More well known as ‘The Liquidator’!
🏴⚽️
Good thing thing this video is subtitled, for those of us who only speak American. The "Making of" featurette -- is almost as long as the movie itself.
Culturally there is a gap as wide as the Atlantic between a film like TIJ and most American audiences, both in humour and language. Unsurprising that TIJ wasnt a success in the US - the surprise would have been if it had been a box-office success. The same is often true in reverse. Deep South accents are as undecipherable as any Cockney rhyming slang....
'...and I'm looking for a small blonde scrubber.' I laughed out loud at that! Poor Hazel, totally undeserved!
Great doco thank you but the picture seems very dark to me?
Brilliant film.
What an awesome making-of documentary. So many of these things are pretty dull; this one makes the movie even better - in so many ways.
Quincy Jones wrote Self Preservation Society?! (For instance ;)
Still fun to watch since my first viewing
Love this movie,it was funny,interesting,intelligent and as farcical as it gets….
All they had to do was tag the Mini-Alfa ballet sequence on the end of the film during the credits. Ten years later, that would have been a given.
Irene handl perfection
The Legendary Robert Evans .
Can't Robert Evans afford lights?
In the clipped speech of Noel 'Camp Freddy everyone in the world is bent'
A superb film I liked
The period; the characters; the feel.....lost in time
I want cars that Charlie drives and fashions that Lorna is wearing in this movie.
you can have the cars, Natasa. ( assuming you're a bloke.)
I wonder what Caines great idea was , would have been a great sequel 😊
"yer meant to use yer brakes Chris"
I'm terribly sorry Charles!
@@robertoricardoruben love it
Does anyone have any clue where the Motorway/Highway is where they drive the Mini's into the back of the bus? Thanks.
There's a road sign at the start of the scene. This might help.
@@JoeRivermanSongwriter Thanks for the help.
"someone..has broken into my toilet ..."
38:21 is Father Jack Hackett from Father Ted. Frank Kelly.
that blew my bloody doors off; in Kilmainham ! never knew that. what did they get for that, a bit of remission ?..........although i know now a lot of irish folk support england, as do a lot of english support d'orish when they play. (obv if you got a bomb under yer jam jar, or copped one from a sniper in the Divis, ya'd think different.)
Instead putting Teresa May in charge of Brexit they should have put Charlie Croker , and his gang instead.
It was a Fiat Dino. Mind you it did have a Ferrari engine.
On the back of the bus, on the cliff, no open doors?!Well that's what it looks like to me, oh I used to live in a val called val the slag!
I'm sure the Italian job was a happy accident . It was a miracle it wasn't Americanised .
It just worked as well as it did cause of Michael and the writers and stunts and English humour .
Wonderful - almost as good as the film!
I think BMC were very astute.
They'd get the publicity anyway, so why pay out a single penny, or provide any minis?
Would it have changed the film in any way if they had given the crew any minis for free?
Robert Redford would of ruined it. Steve McQueen or Paul Newman would of been a better choice however why bring in an American into a British film or vice versa. At least as the lead role, unless it's about that nationality in a foreign country, why have the protaganist played by someone like that.
obviously bob evans was clueless
Query - Alfie was a success in the USA but this film wasn’t because they couldn’t market it??????
Then they thought " I know lets make it again with shit Bmw's and try and make money on all that hard work others put in"
"B - I - G...... big🤷🏻♂️"
34:20 What the f**k is he talking about?
A cult movie.
They could of done a follow up of this were a bus full of big fat women turn up on a hen do and they ballance the bus up on one condition they have to plough through them ha ha ha and Michael Cain sez fk that let the coach go over ha ha ha
Boody Foreigneirs.......They deserved an Oscar only for this Line.
The most amazing Movie in British and Hollywood's History....a truly Masterpiece
52:18 "I'm looking for a small, blonde scrubber."
Another line that needs to be remembered. :-)
and finally remember one crucial Fact......without Raf Vallone, Rossano Brazzi and the Benevolance of Gianni Agnelli this Movie could never took Place...the rest is History
I've never loved this film the way the men in my life do, but that opening scene - Matt Monro, Rossano Brazzi, that scenery - is one of my favourite film sequences ever.
Best Film Ever.
Great film and is a great document of the time.
First time I watched this must have been 10 y/o in 1975 and loved it. Always enjoyed watching the repeats on TV
The Best British movie ever....even more powerfull than James Bond Legacy ........I remember to watch it with my dad before he passad away and fallen in love at once....it was the year 1991 and so was the time to move in London and changed myy Life for good......We own to the Brits & British Directors a lots of Emotions and the best Memories in Movie's making History.
your english is "coming on ", Gianni. ( tongue is in the cheek, si ? )
One of my favourite movies.... ..My father owned a 1965 mini Austin then....I loved the car more
shes big,BIG.The best line in film EVER.
One of the best films ever.
Sooo much better than the one with Marky mark and the F wit bunch LOL
@@zeemanjr whenever i see a film with Marky mark in,i reach for my gun.
Here, here! Quite right!
zeemanjr that film was quite enjoyable. But in comparison to the original.
No contest.
david lyon
Mark Walbergs movie was good in and of it self.
But the originals as and is much better. Too bad they can’t do a sequel of the original today with the same actors. ☹️
" Camp Freddy, everyone in the world is bent "
classic, Michael; loathe to mention mr Coward.
That guy with the swept back hair and sunglasses sat in semi darkness was more rock and roll than Elvis !
His autobiography is great: Robert Evans - The Kid Stays In The Picture.
Somehow, "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" wouldn't sound right coming from Robert Redford.
love to hear it Eve, for the crack.
As they said Redford was the flavor of the week (year, whatever) Caine (Maurice Micklewhite, whatever) is the only way this timeless classic could've happened
@@edwardhalpin7503 A bit like how Martin Freeman was flavor of the week and a vehicle was needed for Mos Def, so they cast them both in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie with no regard for their suitability in those roles, and they ruined the movie.
He would have said it with charm, a hollywood gaze, and then a turn.
A Great film showing G.B. where we stood in the swinging 60s ... I have a question, in regard to the time of filming in Italy? was that in 1968 as England played in The European Championship Finals (in Italy) I ask this in regard to The England football supporters scenes ?
Brilliant!!!!
I relate well with the movie as my first car was a mini layland. red in colur but no sripes. and it was cheap to drive back then.
Gerard.
What year was this making Of done?
2009
Guhonter 1969
Does anyone know what happened in the garage scene when Charlie buys the Aston? The car dealer looks suspicious
I think he was suspicious because Charlie said he hunted lions with machine gun instead of reguler gun
Charlie is not BUYING the Aston, he's paying for maintenance and storage for three years while he was in prison. He says something like, "it's been so long since I've been in this car". He makes up the excuse about the engine needing more air through the second carburetor so that he, not the garage man, can go under the hood (bonnet). Charlie then very subtly pulls out a stash of money that has been hidden in the car for three years. That way, when the man tells him the cost for getting his car out of storage, Charlie has the money to pay him. The reason the garage man seems shocked is both that Charlie can so easily pay him such a large amount, and the comment about "I used a machine gun".
Bleedin Nora, what the hell's wrong with ya? Only 4000 hits, 30 likes and 5 comments. I can feel them Britneys commin on...