You have all seen it (the original of course ) and you all know the cliff hanger ending.
Here is how it should have ended
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7756288.stm
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I never watched the recent BMW-Mini remake, as i considered it a sacrilege.
(YES! I did watch Stallone screwing up Get Carter... which put me off Caine remakes for life. Not nearly enough gratuitous sex or violence in it, compared to the original.)
How did THAT Italian Job movie end?
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Well .... they could have taken thier shirts/jumpers off, tied the arms together to fashion a kind of rope, held both ends, which would have formed a loop, and tossed the loop over the pile of gold, snagged a couple of ingots off the top and dragged them upto them. When they had slightly more gold wieght than the lightest person, he could then walk down the bus and carry the ingots to the front. Simple! ;-)
Billy
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I always thought the actual presence of gold ingots in the first place was the one weakness of the otherwise brilliant film. When I visited a gold mine many years ago, the guide invited volunteers to pick up a gold ingot with one hand; if anyone could do so, they could keep it. Absolutely impossible, of course. Gold has a density over twice that of mild steel and a Mini Cooper loaded up with gold ingots would do the suspension in. And as for driving a coach with a pallet of them in the back...!
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"The star says he would have saved them by "switching on the engine", burning off petrol until it righted itself.
A petrol engined bus? Is/was there such a thing?
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It was quite a deviant coach too;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_VAL
...deviant because of its chinese six layout.
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"The star says he would have saved them by "switching on the engine" burning off petrol until it righted itself.
It seems the "star" has either read or heard about this:
The Royal Society of Chemistry are running a competition to decide what happened after Michael Caine said "Hang on lads, I've got an idea"
The winner wins a weekend in Turin.
www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2008/Italia...p
www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/30/italian_job_endin.../
A common solution proposed was to keep the engine running until all the fuel was burnt, see:
www.hitched.co.uk/Chat/forums/t/67344.aspx
www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/30/italian_job_endin.../
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yes there was a lot of old busses/coaches that were petrol engines..bedfords spring to mind
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