Charlie dusts off millions

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Movie
German title Charlie dusts off millions
Original title The Italian Job
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1969
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Collinson
script Troy Kennedy Martin
production Michael Deeley
music Quincy Jones
camera Douglas Slocombe
cut John Trumper
occupation

Charlie Dusts Millions (Original Title: The Italian Job ) is a British comedy film that was made in 1969 under the direction of Peter Collinson .

action

After his release from prison, the master thief Charlie Croker plans a gold heist in Turin with the help of the aging crook Bridger . In the implementation, both the Italian police and the local mafia are to be misled by a spectacular traffic chaos. In prepared minis and with the help of a computer expert, the gang finally manages to escape.

They flee across the Alps in a bus and are already celebrating their triumph when the vehicle goes off the road due to a driving error. The rear of the bus, in which the gold is also located, hovers over the abyss, and the troops try to get to the gold bars by skillfully balancing. But the closer Charlie crawls to the gold bars, the further they slide backwards. Finally he turns around and shouts: "Guys, stand still, I have a great idea!" The film ends with this cliffhanger .

reception

The reviews rate Charlie dusting off millions mostly positive. The collected reviews on Rotten Tomatoes give a rating of 7.4 out of 10 points from 25 reviews; With 21 positive reviews and 4 negative reviews, this results in a rating of 84 percent.

  • “Although hardly known to us, 'The Italian Job' is a cult film in England. It's not just the casual plot that makes it so, but the iconic escape vehicles - three Mini-Coopers - also contribute a lot. Actually a 33 year old insider tip! ”- DVDBoard.de
  • “This classic with Michael Caine in the legendary role of crook Charlie Croker, who made film history with his Mini Cooper chase, is British understatement in its purest form. In the course of the planning of the 'Italian Job', which takes up about two thirds of the film, around a dozen characters are introduced before the spectacular and breathtakingly comical coup and the hunt with the small, fast cars over roofs, stairs and through Italian alleys . “- VideoMarkt
  • "[...] good tension and action cinema with a furious finale, but not psychologically coherent." (Rating: above average) - Lexicon "Films on TV"
  • “An English bank robber who has been released from punishment carries out a gold robbery in Turin according to the plans of a crook strategist killed by the mafia, thus causing traffic chaos in the city. Entertaining, allusive crime satire with a sense of self-persiflage. ”- Lexicon of International Films
  • “The swing-staged film is not a disappointing entertainment for adults, but for young people there are concerns about the lack of opportunities to distance themselves .” - Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , review No. 388/1969

Awards

In 1970, The Italian Job was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Foreign Film category.

The British Film Institute selected Charlie Dusting Millions in 1999 as the 36th best British film of all time . In 2004, the film was voted number 27 of the best British films of all time in a poll by the film magazine Total Film .

useful information

  • The traffic chaos in downtown Turin was deliberately provoked because a staged scene would have been too expensive due to the high volume of traffic.
  • A planned sequel should show, in addition to the mafia saving the gang, a renewed competition for the stolen gold. However, since the film received little attention in the United States , Paramount Pictures strictly rejected possible sequels. Michael Caine attributed this to inadequate publicity and poor marketing .
  • Much of the Turin escape scene was later used in excerpts for the third episode of MacGyver's first season , The Thief of Budapest .
  • A video and computer game based on the original from 1969 was released for the PAL-based PlayStation in 2001 and released in North America for PlayStation and as a computer game for Microsoft Windows in 2002. The game offers a story mode for the film and a multiplayer mode in which the player drives through different areas of London and Turin. The player can drive around freely within a sandbox mode, choosing from a range of cars such as the famous Mini .
  • Under the title The Italian Job - Hunting million was released in 2003 , a remake with Mark Wahlberg , Charlize Theron and Donald Sutherland , whose content but differs greatly from the original.
  • In August 2004, a limited edition DVD box containing this original and the remake was released.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Charlie dusts off millions at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  2. ↑ Charlie dusts off millions. In: DVDBoard.de. Archived from the original on September 2, 2004 ; Retrieved December 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ The Italian Job - Charlie dusts off millions. In: VideoMarkt . Retrieved December 6, 2015 .
  4. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 124
  5. ↑ Charlie dusts off millions. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used