{"id":2534,"date":"2025-03-10T23:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2025-03-10T23:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:05:59","slug":"retro-streaming-movie-adventures-the-italian-job-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/10\/retro-streaming-movie-adventures-the-italian-job-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Streaming Movie Adventures: The Italian Job (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/michael-caine-noel-coward-the-italian-job.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Caine and Noel Coward looking eye to eye in The Italian Job. Only the middle thirds of their heads are visible.\" class=\"wp-image-2535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/michael-caine-noel-coward-the-italian-job.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/michael-caine-noel-coward-the-italian-job-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/michael-caine-noel-coward-the-italian-job-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-italian-job.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic of Michael Caine in The Italian Job. He is shown in shades of yellow and gold. The background is red and magenta.\" class=\"wp-image-2536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-italian-job.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-italian-job-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-italian-job-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My second old school heist movie in a week. This one&#8217;s a lot lighter than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/08\/retro-movie-adventures-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-1974\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2503\">The Taking of Pelham One Two Three<\/a>. Cracking good fun! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things I learned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Noel Coward could play a convincing crime boss.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Benny Hill used to actually act, and was pretty good at it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Benny Hill could play a convincing sex pest. Wait, I knew that one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whole movie is about stealing gold, so this seemed like a natural pairing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Italian-Job-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for The Italian Job parodying the poster for Goldfinger.\" class=\"wp-image-2537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Italian-Job-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Italian-Job-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Italian-Job-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Italian-Job-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hang on a minute, lads &#8211; watching this was a great idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[78,10,248],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-the-italian-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}