The Italian Job 1969

Vincent Canby, New York Times: The film is technically sophisticated and emotionally retarded. Read more

TIME Magazine: Caine and Coward play a splendid game of verbal tennis, but by the final reel the laughs are lost in an anthology of dull and deafening car chases. Read more

Time Out: As a modest fun movie, it works, much helped by deep casting contrasts and a nice sense of absurd proportions. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: The cast does its stuff to good effect. Coward, as the highly patriotic, business-like master crook, brings all his imperturbable sense of irony and comedy to his role. Read more