He is also given copies of the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph to read in the toilet. As for walk-on parts by newspapers and magazines, Mr Bridger, the criminal underworld supremo played by Coward is seen reading newspapers – the Daily Express and the London Evening News – in his luxury prison cell, the walls of which are covered in photographs of the Queen. It’s difficult to imagine Benny Hill and Noël Coward in the same film but they are both in The Italian Job. As part of the escape, the Minis drive through the city’s underground storm drains to avoid the gridlock.
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It’s a caper movie – which coins the classic quote, ‘You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!’ – and centres on an ingenious plan to steal gold being transported across Turin and then escape in three Mini Coopers by creating a massive traffic jam. The Italian Job came out in 1969, with the Minis symbolising the go-getting Britain of the Swinging Sixties and Michael Caine in the lead role.
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I wonder if he read it, liked the idea and tucked it in a drawer for later inspiration? His first credit listed at IMDB is two years later, for the 1958 TV movie Incident at Echo Six.
Troy Kennedy Martin would have been 24 when that copy of Tit-Bits came out. And it’s a frogman who travels through the drains, rather than souped-up Minis. It sounds like the plot of the 1969 film The Italian Job, but the real robbery took place 13 years earlier, in 1956.
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