The Italian Job Notting Hill, W11, was used as the location for Croker's (Michael Caine) home. The highrise apartment where the Turin job is planned was the penthouse flat at Alembic House (now known as Peninsula Heights) on the Albert Embankment. The property was later seen in films such as "Theatre of Blood" (1973), "A Touch of Class" (1973), and "Sweeney!" (1977). It became the London home of novelist Jeffrey Archer. The training sessions shown for the Mini drivers were at the Crystal Palace race track in Upper Norwood, South London. The attempt to blow the doors off the bullion van, which led
The Italian Job (2003 film) start of the 21st century, along with "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1999) and "Ocean's Eleven" (2001), both of which were also remakes of 1960s heist films. In describing his theory of a "team film" genre, film scholar Dr. Jeremy Strong writes that "The Italian Job" could be categorized as such, along with "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "The Great Escape" (1963), "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), and more recently "The Usual Suspects" (1995) and "" (1996). He states that a team film involves a group working towards a particular objective. However, goal-orientation is a widely shared plot attribute of many texts and