The van is blown up on Sydenham Common for the Italian Job, starring Michael CaineIt is one of the most famous explosions in movie history thanks to Michael Caine’s rebuke: “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.”The man behind The Italian Job has told how life imitated art during filming of the scene in which Charlie Croker, played by Caine, and his team of bank robbers practise blowing up a van but get carried away. Michael Deeley, producer of the film, said the special effects supervisor also ended up packing too many explosives into the van — resulting in the destruction of windows across the other side of the common where it was being filmed. Michael Deeley faced nervous times over the Mini Cooper stunts REXThe British filmmaker recalled the moment in his reissued memoir, in which he also described having to set up his own…

Source: The Times October 20, 2017 23:02 UTC