The Italian Job was a film made in 1969. It stars Michael Caine and is about organised crime

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The Italian Job

The Italian Job was a film made in 1969. It stars Michael Caine and is about organised crime. The film has become very famous over the years. In this review I will be focusing on the setting, the characters, the special effects, camera shot, the music and the way that crime and violence are portrayed.

'The Italian job' has various settings, the film starts in a London prison called wormwood scrubs where Charlie Croker was in prison, and also the film was set in Turlin in Italy where the crime happened when Charlie and his gang nicked the gold. These are different cities, for example Turlin in Italy is busy, rich and a glamous city. London is very quite and not as busy in some places. It is in Italy because of the mafia, to be known was unbeatable and the director was trying to show that the mafia can be beaten.
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There are many actors in 'the Italian job' but only one person main actor, Michael Caine. Michael Caine plays a typical cockney and British person 'Charlie Croker'. He is sexually confident, very smart; he is very good at persuading people. He persuaded Mr Bridger to back him with the job in Italy. The other smaller characters play their parts well because they back up Charlie with help with the plan and getting out of the country. They helped Charlie by helping him load the gold into the mini coopers and help distract the police. Some characters drove the ...

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