Italian Job, The / The Italian Job

Image Not Available Director: F Gary Gray, Peter Collinson Dvd Release: 8th March, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Box set, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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The Italian Job is a British comedy caper film, directed by Peter Collinson & written by Troy Kennedy Martin. It was released in 1969 & was a substantial hit, not least because of the prescence of Michael Caine ; subsequent television showings & outings on video have established it as something of a national institution in the UK, with a cult following elsewhere. In 2004 the magazine Total Film named The Italian Job the 27th greatest British film of all time. The film stars Michael Caine as dapper mobster Charlie Croker, with Noel Coward as Mr Bridger, an incarcerated criminal mastermind who nonetheless runs a gangland empire from within jail. The plot revolves around Caines attempt to stage a gold bullion robbery in Turin, to be achieved by sabotaging the traffic-control computer & escaping, in spite of the resulting traffic jam, in nippy Mini getaway cars along a carefully planned route. In the first half of the film Caine assembles his gang, which includes Benny Hill as computer expert Professor Peach & in a very minor role Robert Powell. Posters Of The Italian Job

Peter Collinson is best known as an old-school Unix hacker who contributed greatly to the BSD Unix kernel. A part of his degree programme he built & programmed a bitmapped raster graphic display based on a monochrome television tube & custom digital driving circuitry. He joined the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent at Canterbury in the UK at or soon after its founding in the sixties & proceeded to activated the first Unix system in the UK. Throughout his time at the Laboratory he was deeply involved in the development of the BSD Unix kernel & utilities from Version 7 on PDP-11 through 4,1 to 4,3BSD on VAX. Before TCP/IP was implemented in BSD, he designed & implemented a Transport Service Byte Stream Protocol for the 10Mbit/second campus Cambridge Ring network. servers listened on words rather than port numbers & the protocol supported a side band of expedited data, which would overtake regular data. He also designed & implemented an entirely new bitmapped windowing system, Term, which ran on a low-cost microcomputer & talked to Unix mainframes over a serial cable. Posters Of The Italian Job

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