The Italian Job (1969)/The Italian Job (2003)

Released: 8th March 2004. A box set containing the 1969 original and the 2003 remake. In the 1963 version, upon leaving jail, petty criminal Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) inherits a carefully planned $4,000,000 gold robbery in Italy. With the original mastermind of the plan murdered, Croker needs financial backing and finds it in Mr Bridger (Noel Coward in his last screen role), a quintessential English crime boss still incarcerated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Bridger supplies Charlie with his own gang of bank robbers, getaway drivers and computer whizz-kids, and helps him plan the heist (during the practice runs Caine utters the infamous phrase 'you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off'), which results in the world's biggest traffic jam. The gang's getaway in red, white and blue minis is accompanied by the tune 'Getta Bloomin Move On' (aka 'Self Preservation Society') written by Quincy Jones and George Martin. Whilst the 2003 Hollywood remake stars Mark Wahlberg as master-thief Michael Crocker (Caine's role in the original). The plan was flawless, the execution perfect. Croker pulled off a daring heist in Venice with a group of top-notch crminals and overseen by his mentor John (Donald Sutherland). But the one thing Crocker didn't foresee was being double-crossed by one of the gang (Edward Norton). Several years later, the gang have made new lives for themselves in the US; but Crocker cannot forget and when the opportunity arises he gathers together the crew for a revenge heist...