"Hang on lads
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The mystery of The Italian Job’s cliff-hanger ending has been solved after almost 40 years, the BBC has reported. The classic 1969 film ends with a gang of gold thieves hanging over a ravine in a bus. Every step they take towards the loot threatens to tip them into the abyss.
“Hang on lads, I’ve got a great idea,” says Sir Michael Caine’s lead character, Charlie Croker… and then the credits roll.
But now Caine has revealed to a BBC documentary the alternative, unseen ending. “I crawl up, switch on the engine and stay there for four hours until all the petrol runs out,” he said. “The van bounces back up so we can all get out, but then the gold goes over.
“There are a load of Corsican Mafia at the bottom watching the whole thing with binoculars. They grab the gold, and then the sequel is us chasing it.”
Caine added that that the alternative ending had been filmed in 1969, but producers later decided against using it.
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