The Italian Job

was, yes.

It's famously, not a lot of people know that there was an original Multipla, but it was used for a notable scene in the original Italian Job, where there's this family, or no, sorry, this group of altar boys smoking and playing cards and rolling dice in the traffic jams in Turin, and that is an original Multipla that they're in.

It's a van with double opening doors, almost like a slightly smaller Volkswagen bus.

Yes.

Yes, which previously was the film location in the horror film Theater of Blood.

Yes, and the flat below it is used in The Italian Job.

Indeed.

So we've all got his penthouse address.

Um, I mean, th- there's some, there's some real, um, some, you know, some absolute pearlers in their back catalog.

I mean, you know, Troy Kennedy Martin wrote The Italian Job.

You know, he did loads.

Edge of, Edge of Darkness, that classic BBC mid-'80s drama.

[laughs]

Um, I mean, I didn't realize until I saw it again on TV that The Italian Job, the movie with Michael Caine-

Mm

... and of all people, Noel Coward-

For season 18, we are going to be discussing notable films that have been remade and then the remakes themselves.

Welcome to our season premiere discussing 1969's The Italian Job.

I am your host, Ken.

Damn, that was all formal and shit, yo.

Yeah

...

The Italian Job.

So I think that that is why.

Uh, they're not like Ocean's 11.

They're not like, uh, uh, uh, The Italian Job.

Uh, uh-

Hmm.

about a different Michael Caine project than a different remake.

Of course, today on the episode, we are talking about The Italian Job, 1969.

And The Italian Job, 2003.

Oh,

wow.

Okay.

So actually, I was very excited because I've actually never, never, never, never seen The Italian Job, 1969.

Wow.

And on the big screen came one of the most iconic British films of the decade.

the Italian job.

But away from the cinema screens and the television sets, another story was unfolding in dark clubs on crowded dance floors and through the records being discovered by a generation of young soul fans, the foundations of Northern Soul was being laid.

My.

The search would eventually become one of the defining characteristics of northern Seoul, and 1969 was a fascinating year for Britain generally.

It was the year of the moon landing, the year that the Beatles were still dominating the cultural landscape, and on the big screen, We had one of the great British films, The Italian Job.

But while Britain was looking towards a future, something else was happening in the clubs, in the dark rooms beneath the streets and behind unassuming doors.

Young people were discovering records that most Britain had never heard.

I think it

was composed by Quincy Jones and this is the Matt Monroe version from The Italian Job but Cat and I's dad always used to play whatever we would get going on a road

trip

so seeing them cruising down those Nordic fjords with this bang on