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| | Italian Job, The (1969): Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Maggie Blye |
 | | The film's producers were offered massive inducements by Fiat to use Italian cars throughout the film, but stuck by their conviction that the getaway cars could only ever be Minis, despite the fact that this cost them financially. |
 | | She remembers Raf Vallone (who plays the Mafia head) as being "gorgeous and a terrible flirt." Both Vallone and fellow Italian Rossano Brazzi were cast to give the film appeal in continental Europe, where both were still very big stars. |
 | | Film tributes include the Stereophonics video for "Pick a Part That's New", in which they have red, white and green minis, as befits their Welsh nationhood, and Kronenbourg 1664, who have redone the church steps scene with red, white and blue Citroen 2CVs. |
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