The Italian Job 1969 intro

Factory original 1968 Lamborghini Miura P400, chassis number 3586, finished in Arancio Miura (Miura Orange) with a fully original Pelle Bianco leather interior. Completed for delivery on 2nd July 1968 and just 5 owners from new.

[@univibe23]

One of the greatest movie openings of all time. The first time I saw it, it had an inexplicable emotional effect on me. Maybe it was the lyric combined with the beautiful scenery, I don't know.

[@Gustingorriz]

That level of perfection that makes you cry.

[@alexandercrews1194]

the fact that they wrecked a real Miura for this also makes me want to cry

[@johnchurch4705]

@@alexandercrews1194 the Muira that went down the cliff was a written off one that happened to be the same colour. The one seen driving into the tunnel is still around, look up Iain Tyrell on here and he tells the story of how that Muira was found.

[@kieranmccaffrey3459]

I'm crying yes

[@kazamshah4543]

STOP EVERYTHING!!!! This is the most beautiful opening sequence to a a pretty crappy movie

[@hueymontgomery9508]

The Miura was a true legendary supercar, even Frank Sinatra says to you "You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody." And I would say, nobody beat/destroy this legendary supercar

[@TheClareybrown61170]

Went to see this film in 1969 with my lovely Mum a massive cargirl. God I miss her!!!!!!

[@gvincent1955]

Rossano Brazzi behind the wheel. And those unbelievably cool sunglasses that he's wearing were put back into production by a British company, Renauld. An homage to the actor: They're named Rossano.

[@GeneralLee1961.3]

Perfect car, perfect song… perfect era!!!

[@FrankCostanza-dr4qd]

One of the most iconic opening scenes in the history of cinema.

[@gtrman9706]

My late father owned a Muira in 1970.I was 6 yrs old and had no idea what it was.Just an orange car to me.😣😣😣😣

[@Petrospect]

What happened to it?

[@pixelcat3948]

Honda 250 oh

[@2Worlds_and_InBetween]

I drove a "4 valve" version...once. but then im English

[@andyelliott8027]

When I was 6 years old I'd keep asking my dad to get the speedo needle round the clock, which he wouldn't do, he kept me safe as I was oblivious to danger. This was 1960 and the Muira appeared 4 years later, no seat belts in 1960 so I'm glad my dad was a careful driver.

[@giacomoleopardi5776]

Your Father was a Man with Taste👌🏼

[@stigsaussiecousin1197]

Perfect just perfect, perfect car, perfect sound track, perfect scenery

[@smoothoperator7023]

until......

[@BACONSTRIPZzUKOfficial]

@@smoothoperator7023 A large bulldozer appears

[@itsmephil2255]

Let's just forget about that though

[@deejasart7766]

Yes

[@hermanman8235]

➡️ STUNNING !!!!!!

[@loreyhoffman4084]

Best opening scene ever! Bravo!

[@Achintyanath]

This was one of the favorite movies of my late father.

[@mehdimehdavi8846]

Fantasizing my self in the clip .beautiful car,beautiful road,beautiful sound,and die in lamborghini miura ..now that's a beautiful way to die

[@RayMelville]

Classy silver voice of Matt Monro coupled with the Miura's pornographic sounds culminating in tragedy in a tunnel in the Italian Alps. Genius. That's when movie making was art not computer enhanced series of disconnected action scenes.

[@itsmephil2255]

Talking about a lambo engine being pornographic........ Yep totally agree

[@sitarnut]

Yes, to everything, and Matt's golden voice for sure..ck out his intro singing in, "A Matter of Innocence."

[@nicolasmartin7054]

I agree 100%. A certain idea of the way of life at that time. Art in every moment in this introductory scene.

[@Junior-iq2tl]

Perhaps the greatest intro in movie history pure sixties glamour

[@georgep4766]

The Lambo Miura is a moving work of art; I also like the opening sequence (road + car + mountains + music); CLASSIC !!!

[@johnmiller5630]

One if not the greatest opening sequence. Stunning.

[@Cerl84]

the film used for this must have been superior. looks almost new 50 years later.

[@andyberridge6455]

Matt Munro, on days like these, classic track, classic movie.👍 🇬🇧

[@i_notold8500]

The original Miura shown in this film was finally located( it "disappeared' after the film and its location was unknown to the public for nearly 50 years). It's in the private collection of a man in Liechtenstein. The car's authenticity was verified by Lamborghini under their Polo Storico program. Enzo Moruzzi , the man that delivered it to the set, also being the one who drove it in most of the movie's scenes, was one of the people to verify it. It is valued at over $2million US. Edit; 2 Muira's were used in the film, one was obviously destroyed.

[@mendingbook5108]

One miura got hurt?

[@qwertyytrewq9570]

@@mendingbook5108 It was already hurt before filming. A Miura's carcass really, as a prop.

[@CycolacFan]

They found a wrecked Miura then Lamborghini kindly lent them one that matched it before it was later delivered to its unsuspecting owner.

[@qwertyytrewq9570]

@@CycolacFan Said Miura belonging to some Middle Eastern royal who died behind the wheel apparently.

[@energyasylum997]

@@qwertyytrewq9570 Perfect way to go!

[@MTreddevil12]

This scene is better than the whole shitty remake

[@itsmephil2255]

Well said brother

[@studiocalder818]

Haha, right!!

[@dinispaulino7512]

I woudn't call it a remake... the story is very different. But there's something charming about old movies like this one...

[@hermanman8235]

Got to agree the ORIGINAL are GOLD.

[@sultanoftippoo3857]

Interesting. Personally I thought both movies were excellent but there again I’ve never understood the need to compare things that are subjective.

[@jorgegordo5078]

Some days ago I was driving to a winter resort by a very similar high mountain pass road, plenty of closed curves, snow spotted beside, Persol sun-glasses and taking, not very slow, my Pininfarina coupé while listening the same song. I love driving fast but calm, love The Italian job (M. Caine is one of my ever favourite actors) and the age and stylish atmosphere that it brings to our minds.

[@Elconbrioso]

Man can never own too many pairs of Persol sunglasses. I too had a Pinifarina coupe (130) different from yours I'm guessing ; what a beauty. In blue with rust velour ......long since gone

[@shankarbalan3813]

This is one of my all time favourite movie scenes. A Miura. The Furka pass. The old days with petrol driven luxury sports. Smoking in the car! Cool Italian dude driving. Beautiful mountain scenery. And this most beautiful Matt Monro Song. Just Wow! And then the tunnel and BANG! And Rossano Brazzi the wicked Mafia Don in his slick silk suit, callously stepping on and crushing the sunglasses....

[@sfenodonte]

A style that has disappeared today

[@rickintexas1584]

I like everything except the smoking! I'm glad that they found the Muira from the film. It was a beautiful car then, and it is still a beautiful car. I would love to drive that road in my Porsche!

[@sfenodonte]

@@rickintexas1584 I know many of those roads Italy is full, it is not easy attention and ability as well as the right car .....

[@australianmotorlifemuseum1983]

The Mafia boss was played by Raf Vallone. Rossano Brazzi was the driver of the Lamborghini.

[@sfenodonte]

A very scenic MAFIA, in reality it acts in a much more hidden way ........ however the idea of the cat in the gallery is good and plausible .....@@australianmotorlifemuseum1983

[@nevilleprinsloo]

That Miura!!!! Been in love with it for 31 years.

[@dastard98765]

Me too mate.

[@francescosalvioli]

then you divorced?

[@2Worlds_and_InBetween]

an _sv_ ...?

[@raduangheluta3739]

Acest mare videoclip original este din filmul lovitură în italia film original din anul 1969 și l-am vizionat pentru prima dată în viața mea pe timpul lui ceaușescu la cinema festival când fiind mic copil am fugit de acasă să îl vizionez cu foarte mare plăcere. Mi-e dor de vremurile bune de odinioară de demult apuse.

[@garymcgrath8246]

Real nice cinematography

[@elliotbarratt3078]

The best film ever made an it was in 1969 wow 😮 😄🙏🏻 thank you Caine

[@bobcharters]

Wow! I have watched this umpteen times. I mean, UMPTEEN!!, and this is the first time that my non musical ear has noticed that, for me, the music starting, blends in with revs of the car. Overall, this has got to have been one of the hardest to choreograph, and pull off successfully, films of all modern time.

[@Kolinu2]

Great opening sequence, helping to make The Italian Job such a classic movie. Also thankfully, the Miura's engine survived.

[@Sammie_Sorrelly]

They never trashed the Miura from the driving sequence - who could bear to do such a thing? Why do you think it crashed in a tunnel? Some bloke in Liechtenstein owns the original.

[@Kolinu2]

@@Sammie_Sorrelly I didn't say they did. Watch the ending, they push a Miura shell into a ravine.

[@MilkDrinker218]

@@Kolinu2 I think the Miura they threw over the side was already crashed and was being prepared to be scrapped

[@Desertfox170]

What a voice ❤

[@romanmorawski1859]

Absolutely beautiful

[@mohammedadil8698]

Best car crash test and best memorial sympathy to the driver. WOW

[@gixerloon]

First time I saw this movie as a kid I feel in love with the Miura, I've wanted one ever since, sadly I think It'll never happen now as they are worth mega money, and the lotto keeps evading me. 😥

[@brucesharpe1079]

Brilliant film good opening scene with Matt Monro song

[@snowm9043]

So beautiful my favourite film

[@johndavis7944]

"It's on days like this I remember".... That down shift just before the music entre. You'd have to be a very experienced dtiver to get the most of it's leg and power on this stretch of road. Definitely a Bucket List drive in any sports or touring car.

[@babadook8874]

Great collaboration Quincy Jones and Matt Monro

[@Sammie_Sorrelly]

Great collaboration of Ferruccio Lamborghini and Giotto Bizzarrini

[@stephengodsmark4353]

@@Sammie_Sorrelly yeah. But thats matt monro.

[@skbmusic2538]

Auch super schön beleuchtet der Fahrer in der Nahen lr am Steuer... die zeitgenössische Musik ist Gold wert! Ende kommt einem heutzutage irgendwie bekannt vor ;)

[@Golds174]

What a great version of this song, far better than the one on all the albums. As far as I know, this isn't available anywhere, so thanks for the upload.

[@andyelliott8027]

I've got on a compilation Matt Monroe 2CD set I bought in the supermarket in 2020. Brilliant singer.

[@powersliding]

should have taken the sunglasses out in the tunnel

[@JDunk302]

The amount of class oozing from the screen...

[@martiniv8924]

Classic, so cool 😎

[@philiphodge4254]

Superb! 👍👀

[@Noizyneighbour]

Did anyone else notice that directly after the Muira enters the tunnel you see a shot of the rear of the bulldozer. The "wreck" is already on it before the crash if you look closely.

[@chrisjohnson4165]

Spoilsport!

[@andyelliott8027]

The wreck was also a different car of course. Already crash damaged, it had no engine in it. It was a different colour too.

[@RJSRdg]

I didn't notice that, but just before the bulldozer pushes the car over the cliff, if you look closely at the road surface, you can see that there's a set of caterpillar tracks showing that the dozer had already done that move once - probably a rehearsal as it would have been a one-take shoot.

[@jeffmackie547]

The late great Matt Munro with a fantastic song. As Frank Sinatra said the only Limey who could sing, praise indeed

[@chrisjohnson4165]

Matt Munro was a London bus driver before he was famous.

[@kazamshah4543]

Beautiful opening sequence, shame about the rest of the film!!!!

[@jexler2802]

Who’s here from Digital Car Addict??

[@miamibitch305fl]

The definition & color was better in 69 than it is now.

[@highspeedgaz]

Renauld Gold Sunglasses ,£1,250

[@overlord-ir3tx]

Sublime

[@yallowrosa]

great Funeral of Brazzi on Miura ...

[@vaughnsigal4560]

Seeing that miura wreck hurts me greater than any words could

[@MrRooibos123]

Yeah. They didn't wreck it for the film though. They found a written off one and used that instead.

[@klemensseibel6175]

@@MrRooibos123 yes, the damage is anything but a collision with a bulldozer's shovel. The front would be much shorter, and the car would not be on the shovel

[@steveluck9541]

Check out Tyrells Classic Workshop to see the car today great video same location and chat to the designer

[@blowduke]

That’s what bought me here 👍

[@keabot]

Been on this very road 👌🏽

[@snoutmeat]

Which road is it? Planning a future trip. :)

[@keabot]

@@snoutmeat Saint Bernard pass aosta.👍🏽

[@diljitjedi]

Any luck with that car as a little child and it still is a raging bull in my heart

[@adrianovasconcelos2739]

Terrific song in the lovely voice of Matt Monro. This wonderful sequence blatantly plagiarized by a Land Rover advertisement around 2016. Thanks for sharing

[@somebloke2238]

What a way to go

[@TheClareybrown61170]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!! The Very BEST

[@alangil40]

Enzo must have ordered the hit....

[@Sovereign1987]

Never ending cigarette :-)))) perfect 🤩😍

[@salvatoregiuliano2647]

That cool

[@samuilover3136]

Good Job Cheshire !

[@salvatoregiuliano2647]

Wow

[@zarrow50]

and he had put a new clutch in the day before

[@hugolafhugolaf]

Tyrrell's Classic Workshop brought me here.

[@salazarstreet272]

I want to hear the engine...more and more and moreeee

[@davecoalwood9487]

Best all round film that has ever been made. Seriously I know You may think I am talking soft... but if a popularist but semi decent film of this ilk was made now it would be massively loved. I.E.( fuck off again grimer polic) Le Mans 66 was brilliant ( for Me and Some) but a bit Racing driven for some maybe? This film all round gold. Why was that dirge even called italien job staring Mark mark? This is a think of beauty and Master Mickelwhite is truly a screen legend.

[@resytechengineering753]

Just ubercool

[@bertberlich943]

Geil! Sogar ein Miura SV👍

[@doge9OOO]

If there are these cameras with color back in the 60s then kill me.

[@anthonyv1971]

Panavision

[@chrisjohnson4165]

Matt Munro was a London bus driver before he was famous. If only he was driving the coach with the bullion in...........

[@gixerloon]

Yes I though I was the only one that remembered that factoid, my father was also a bus driver back then and I remember him saying he knew Matt Munro.

[@markshrimpton3138]

“In this country they drive on the wrong side of the road.”

[@James-oo1yq]

In those days the wrecked car would have been left in the river...and I'd bet that where it remains. A lot of car and movie buffs would pay a fortune for certain parts...especially the V12

[@13thdukeofwybourne69]

If you freeze frame around 4:11 when the rear body flips up, you can see the engine, and gearbox are completely absent. I guess they stripped out everything they could get away with from the wrecked "stunt Miura".

[@James-oo1yq]

@Rick O'Shay Nobody said they did. We know they used a wrecked car 😕

[@CycolacFan]

They pushed it over near the end of the day and then stopped filming. Next morning when they went to tidy it up every trace of the wreck was gone. They searched the river for several miles but someone had taken it all. Hasn’t been seen since.

[@Omnihil777]

That Miura driver looks very much like Jean Dujardin.

[@75vanbasten]

Miura Lamborghini❤️❤️❤️

[@jstevenson7121]

This car was for sale in Classic and Sports car a couple of years ago. Obviously a mock-up went over the cliff. I believe that 'dozed DB4 convertible was a Flaminia.

[@RJSRdg]

The Lambo that went over the cliff was the remains of one that had alreadt been written off in an accident.

[@00razmataz]

😍😍😍

[@cookedit]

@0:38 that damn huge rock! Just by the side waiting to ruin someones ride.

[@insurgencyandunturnedgamep3357]

One of the nicest cars ever, in my opinion, Lamborghini Miura man on a lovely cruise then the Italian mafia blow it up and chuck it off a cliff.

[@tomgoulsbra871]

Does anyone know where the tunnel is at the end where they throw the car off the road?

[@OzoneLoch]

Очень современная съёмка

[@4x4ManiacBadTimeGarage]

which mountain pass is that? where was this scene shot?

[@langheproperty]

It's mostly the San Bernardo pass from Italy into Switzerland but the tunnel is in a place called La Thuile. Well worth a visit. Just be sure to play 'On days like these' as you drive.

[@lubomirdimitrov9011]

Holy Shit

[@user-xw8sg4yd2l]

👍🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@salvatoregiuliano2647]

I have a red merc still cool

[@russmiller1717]

I hope no actual muira was harmed in filming this

[@badboyblue9675]

Can’t play this song …just can’t

[@Oldmandoom95]

They just dont make em like they used to...

[@johnnyzee383]

Did they REALLY have to destroy such a magnificent car?..omg makes a grown man cry....

[@RJSRdg]

The one that was pushed over the cliff was the remains of one that had already been written off in an accident.

[@georgeellison926]

What a shame they put music over the sound of the car, they evidently didn't realize they already had the perfect soundtrack. Would have much preferred to hear the car being put through its paces.

[@marklloyd4087]

Great music to drive to, but you then realised you have driven through three speed cameras!!!! Never mind I quite like using the bus.

[@venkatiyer6461]

Anyone knows where this was shot?

[@bobubastardbbqandmetal9908]

It wouldn't have blown up like that..the engine was in the rear..But Damn

[@jovantrendmaker4722]

Funny that original miura used for movie is Orange bur looks red in movie

[@sergioabib3216]

Matt Monro.

[@craiggcameron]

Poor muira

[@damondavis6221]

Forgive my ignorance but …where is he driving to ?

[@user-uk5gl4nv9c]

🇯🇵なんだこの映画！知らない…見たいよー！

[@fredfungalspore]

Is this Marcello Mastroianni driving the car?

[@patchesdf]

Did they actually destroy a Lamborghini Miura in this scene? Or just some mock up? Because a collector just recently announced they found the original Lamborghini Miura from the original film and it's intact.

[@theskig]

It was an already wrecked Miura.

[@patchesdf]

You're right! I just found the story confirmed on Top Gear. I'm glad they didn't have to wreck a beautiful car.

[@sand0077]

Hard to watch seeing the Miura destroyed

[@retroracingshirt591]

"miura retroracingshirt" SHIRT

[@mrunning10]

The best movie intro in the history of film.

[@Yahniboy]

Lots of Bond movies have great intros then the movie falls off a cliff after the Bond theme song