Guest blogger: Elias M2

In the Alps a red Lamborghini Miura running at over 200 km / h gets in an accident inside the tunnel. The pilot, English, has not had an accident, he was murdered and his killers launched the car down the ravine, just before it rolls on its own path even a funeral wreath. A few days after Charlie Croker, a clever thief just came out of prison, he is being offered to complete the shot that the pilot, Beckerman, was planning: go to Turin and paralyze the city, blocking all the traffic and allowing only one way to escape, that they will use after stealing the 4 million that Beijing is moving to Fiat to build a factory in the Chinese capital. Written by Troy Kennedy-Martin Scot from his novel, "The Italian Job" is a film by British production directed by Peter Collinson that his own Britishness is the main strength of the movie. The irony, dialogue, action, narrative developments, the choice of actors and all the details- they always aim to carry high the flag of the country’s origin of the film. There are also cons, such as the use of the character Lorna, some avoidable little things, or, above all, the whole first part that is kind of slow - ok it is useful to introduce the many characters (although in reality the main ones can be counted on fingers hand) and the theft to be done - but it gets boring in preparation for the story of when the stroke is then put in place, what essentially would be the climax of the last half hour narrated. From here, fortunately, the film recovers and it reveals to be adequately free and very suspenseful in staging the robbery and the chase. The film’s icon is the three colors of Great Britain on the BMC Mini that they zigzag through the city of Turin, on the roof of the Fiat plant on the banks of the Po, always with the police in hot pursuit, until Charlie and his gang end up refuging in the Alps, where the story began and where it will end. The final was in consequence left open to make room for a possible sequel, but it has never been made. In return, in the 2003 Americans have made a remake; but it is not even close to the quality of the original one in my opinion.