Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

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At last Michael Caine reveals ending to the Italian Job". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019 . Retrieved 1 September 2019. The Italian Job". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 28 July 2020 . Retrieved 11 July 2018. Huggins, Nik (15 May 2009). "The Italian Job (1969)". Future Movies. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013 . Retrieved 11 July 2018. As such, I’d describe the book as a bonus volume of life lessons Caine’s learnt along the way, although a less generous reader might describe it as a canny publicity stunt – an attempt to get some extra mileage from those anecdotes and stories that didn’t make the cut the first or second time around. a b Travers, James. "The Italian Job (1969)". Films de France. Archived from the original on 8 December 2011 . Retrieved 16 October 2011.

The final escape from Turin was filmed on the road from Ceresole Reale via Lago Agnel to Nivolet Pass (the highway does not lead to France or Switzerland because it is a dead end). After leaving for Italy, Croker and some of his crew split off from the others while en route to Turin, to avoid raising suspicion. However, the small group soon encounter the Mafia waiting for them in the Alps, led by their boss Altabani, who destroys their cars. Croker narrowly manages to talk his way out of getting murdered. His crew infiltrate the Turin traffic control centre later that night, whereupon Peach replaces one of the computer's magnetic tape data storage reels with a duplicate designed to sabotage Turin's traffic control system on the day of the heist. The next day, as the gold arrives and the crew prepare for the heist, Croker sends Lorna to Geneva to protect her and the plan. At the same time, Peach absconds from the crew, and is later arrested for molesting a woman on a tram. The Italian Job (1969)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on 19 November 2021 . Retrieved 25 October 2021.

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The Italian Job 50th anniversary: exclusive interview with David Salamone". British GQ. 2 December 2019. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020 . Retrieved 30 September 2020. Field, Matthew (2019). The Self Preservation Society: 50 Years of The Italian Job. Porter Press International. ISBN 978-1907085864. OCLC 1099316716. With over 100 movies to his credit over five decades, Hollywood legend and British national treasure Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight and skills for success in life that acting has taught him in his remarkable career. Thief of Budapest". The MacGyver Project. 16 February 2015. Archived from the original on 20 July 2018 . Retrieved 23 July 2018.

He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions. The actor’s descriptions of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s – what he calls “a vibrant, exciting time to be young and working class in Britain” – are extremely entertaining. Although I haven't read any of the others, this isn't the first time Michael Caine has written an autobiographical book. My sense is that this one is more of an addendum to his previous books, which are more straightforward autobiographies (and keep being outdated as he continues to find success in old age). It's billed and structured around different "life lessons," (specifically for prospective actors yet told in a more general sense) which run the gamut between tediously obvious and surprisingly insightful. That organizational structure can be off putting at times, as, after starting out with his pre-star early days, he constantly jumps around in time the rest of the book. At the very end the book does devolve a little too much essentially into lists of actors he's met and friends that have passed away. Even so, there are some really entertaining stories throughout, which are told with his ever-present wit and humility. The Simpsons: The Italian Bob". TV.com. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 28 March 2009 . Retrieved 4 January 2009. Historical Gold Charts and Data". Kitco. Archived from the original on 9 January 2019 . Retrieved 29 May 2006.This was a delightful memoir with life lessons and tips about the acting world sprinkled in. The content was reflective and thoughtful. I really enjoyed Michael Caine's approach to this book. This book, like the author himself is charming and considered. It is essentially Michael Caine's advice or lessons in life, based on his own career as an actor. While this would align perfectly if the reader is an actor (or aspiring actor), it is not to say it is not comparable for life in general. A British icon, hugely respected, knighted in 1992, with a load of nominations and awards, it is all the more impressive given he was destined to follow his father into fish mongering after his early life in Elephant and Castle in Southwark. He is a dedicated family man - buying his mother and brother houses with some of his earliest windfall earnings. MacGyver: 103 (Thief of Budapest)". TV.com. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 10 April 2008 . Retrieved 4 January 2009.