DEJA VIEW REMADE: THE ITALIAN JOB (1969) **SEASON PREMIERE**

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Buckle up, mates, the lads at TGTPTU are going to blow the bloody doors off the idea of a Hollywood remake this season (Season 18, Déjà View), starting with THE ITALIAN JOB (1969).   

Above the title on this one, Sirs Michael Caine and Noël Coward, but the real stars of this heist caper are Swinging London and the Mini Cooper. Caine as Charlie Croker, an ex-con who upon leaving prison after time served is ready to get back to crime-ing after a few good shags and reclaiming his Aston Martin. Croker soon finds himself inheriting quite the caper after his friend dies at the hands of the Italian mafia, leaving behind the details on a nicely edited film for Croker to watch. Croker needs financing, so he breaks back into jail off-camera to interrupt UK kingpin Mr. Bridger, played by Coward with a Her Majesty kink, during his private potty time. When Mr. Bridger learns the gold in Turin that Caine wishes to steal will cripple the Italian economy, thus helping make England great again, he finances the gig’s dozen-some drivers and heavies and its assortment of Minis for test runs before an iconic car chase scene through the streets of Turin and onto a roof of a building and other places cars aren’t meant to go before a literal cliff-hanger ending. Also in this film, comedic actor Benny Hill as a boffin who likes his women big… BIG.    

During this inaugural ep, Ken manages to bring up MacGyver without mentioning MacGruber while also diving deep into the film’s writer and that dude’s brother’s backgrounds; Ryan brings up the Mission Impossible franchise and how Caine was once the cockney James Bond; and Thomas saves the pod by working in (take a shot) a Quentin Tarantino reference.    

Next week, well, The Italian Job (2003). (See how this works, then? 

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