The Italian Job (1969) (UHD Blu-ray) (4K)
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on January 26th, 2023
“We’ve come here to pay our respects to Great Aunt Nellie. She brought us up properly and taught us loyalty. Now I want you to remember that during these next few days. I also want you to remember that if you don’t come back with the goods, Nellie here will turn in her grave, and, likely as not, jump right out of it and kick your teeth in.”
Ian Kennedy-Martin was a television writer for the BBC in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. When London adopted one of the world’s first computerized traffic light systems, it gave him an idea for a series or television movie. The idea was pretty simple. A group of crooks would hack into that system and use a traffic snarl to get away with a big bank job. The problem was that the idea was too large a production for the BBC staff to pull off. So he sold the idea to his brother, Troy Kennedy-Martin
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