The Italian Job

The Italian Job is a British comedy caper film, directed by Peter Collinson and written by Troy Kennedy Martin. It was released in 1969 and was very popular in Britain, not least because of the presence of Michael Caine; subsequent television showings and outings on video have established it as something of a national institution in the UK, with a cult following elsewhere.

Trivia

• American distributors Paramount wanted Robert Redford to play the lead role.
• A great deal of the chase sequence was used in the MacGyver episode "The Thief of Budapest", as one might expect set in Budapest rather than Turin.
• The scene where the robbers' minis are chased through a sewer tunnel were filmed in the Sowe Valley Sewer Duplication system near the English city of Coventry

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