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Michael Caine plays a minor crook who inherits from a dead pal the idea and key plan of a heist for landing a haul of $4 million in gold ingots from a security van in Turin, Italy. The scheme involves an elaborate way of turning the Turin traffic into a colossal, chaotic tangle on which the robbery and getaway depends.

The crime is bankrolled and masterminded by Noel Coward, a top criminal, from a London jail which he virtually controls with sybaratic authority. Caine's assembled gang of crooks seem a bumbling crowd, unfitted to take on the Mafia, which is naturally taking a menacing interest in the scheme.

With wild chases galore the 'Italian Job' culminates with scenes that rival "Bullitt", as the three minis, one red, one white, and one blue use the piazza's, arcades and rooftops to make their getaway with the loot?