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The Italian Job (1969) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Color of the Mini Cooper as it falls down the mountain side changed from blue to red then back to blue
  
  
• Continuity: The bonnet of Charlie's Aston Martin is hinged at the nose of the car. When the car gets thrown off the cliff, the hinges are near the cockpit. This is because the car which was thrown off the cliff was in fact a Lancia Fulvia convertible
  
  
• Continuity: The Coopers have only one person in them when driven through the tunnels, when close-ups show them having passengers.
  
  

• Continuity: Spray of blue paint changes when security van enters building.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Minis are getting lined up on the autostrada to enter the bus, the road is a two-lane road with a solid line between lanes, but in a close up of Croker we see a three-lane road with a dashed lane markings.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During the introductory sequence, the car is seen driving up the Italian side of the Grand St. Bernard pass and then driving down the same side again, whereas it's evidently intended that it crosses the pass.
  
  
• Continuity: The number and positioning of the spot lights on the front of the Minis changes between some shots, particularly when driving through the sewers.
  
  
• Continuity: When the car flips off the carrier and crushes the police car, the gumball light diffuser pops off and lands intact on the ground. Later in a close shot the diffuser is shown to be cracked off with the base still attached to the car.
  
  
• Continuity: The opening drive during the credits sequence was clearly shot in the same rugged, lifeless landscape used for the final sequence with the bus. As the credits end, the camera cuts to Beckerman in the car, then when we cut to the exterior again, suddenly we are surrounded by greenery and a completely different landscape, as the car approaches the tunnel.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Lamborghini Muira is rammed by the snow plow and gets thrown off the cliff into the water, the engine lid opens and the engine is not there. This is because the Lamborghini used for this accident was already a wreck when it "met" with the snow plow.
  
  
• Continuity: When the plow comes out of the tunnel with the Muira on its fork, you can see the arm of the driver leaning on the door. Later, when the plow starts pushing the car off the rocks, it's empty. Yet we see something which looks like a body fall down the cliff when the car is pushed over the edge.
  
  
• Continuity: The truck used to ram the door in Turin is from the Fiat factory, but the purple car that falls off the back is a Farina-designed Austin Cambridge. It's a rusty old Austin, too, not a shiny new one. The boot interior is dirty and a different color to the exterior.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious dummies when the police car crashes through the gate at the end of the sewer.
  
  
• Continuity: When Croker et al confront the Mafia on the mountain road and have their fast cars destroyed, the red Jaguar is already damaged. Even before the truck hits it, you can see that the left-hand headlight is missing.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end, as the coach swings round over the edge, you see a full vapour trail from a plane. Moments later, a shot of the stationery coach from the same camera shows the plane and a partial trail. Presumably the coach was positioned first, then swung back onto land, and the film reversed in the film to make it seem like it was swinging off, rather than on.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the chase down the palazzo steps, the protective covering for the marble stairs is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: During the race around the Fiat test track, a police motorcycle manages to pass in front of the Minis. But in the next shots, the police are all still behind chasing.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene where the mafia wreck the first E-Type Jaguar, Charlie says to the mafia boss "You just cost him his no claims bonus!" No claims bonus is a British term and would not have been understood by an American audience. It was re-dubbed as "You just cost him his insurance bonus!"
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Several of the top tiers of "gold" jiggle around upon hitting the ground when lowered from the plane; too light weight to be real gold.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When moving gold from van to minis, it can be seen to be moved all at once by one guy. Obviously gold would be too heavy for this.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the Coopers are being prepped in the garage prior to the Job, one car has the rear end jacked up. The mechanic says something is wrong with the differential. Swapping the diff in a Mini (a front-wheel drive car) requires the removal of the engine and gearbox which are at the front, not the back. However, this could be an intentional 'mistake' left in by the writers/film-makers. When this film was made front wheel drive cars were not as commonplace in the UK as they are today and most mechanics where used to working on the standard rear wheel driven cars. Asking an inexperienced mechanic to change the diff on a Mini was apparently a common practical joke/jape. The film maker may have also been implying that one of Charlie's mechanics wasn't up to scratch as there are various other gags in the film referring to their ineptitude (i.e. "you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!").
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Gold weighs 19300 kg/m³ - so the mentioned and stolen half ton (be it metric or not makes no big difference) of gold would be a cube with a side length of about one foot. However, the amount of gold shown looks more like one cubic meter.
  
  

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