CREDITS THE ITALIAN JOB, 1969 dir: Peter Collinson Michael Caine Noël Coward Benny Hill

“You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”

The exterior shots are London's famous Wormwood Scrubs prison, but the institution where Mr Bridger (Noël Coward) masterminds the daring heist, is Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin (where prison interiors for In the Name of the Father, with Daniel Day-Lewis were shot).

The coming out do for Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) is at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, Lancaster Terrace, Bayswater (tel: 020.7262.6737).

His oh-so-sixties bric-a-brac cluttered flat is 18 Denbigh Close, off the north end of Portobello Road, W11, next to Aliceís junk shop.

The job is organised in the luxurious highrise of Peninsula Heights (formerly Alembic House), Albert Embankment, also seen in Sweeney!, A Touch Of Class and Theatre of Blood.

The robbery takes place in Turin during a massive traffic jam. The jam starts by the Palazza Madama on Piazza Castello. Unlike BMC, manufacturers of the Mini, who offered minimal co-operation, Fiat offered limitless help.

The rooftop leap, in fact, was filmed on the roof of the Fiat factory, dressed to look like a Turin street. The chase through the sewer was staged in England. Although the entrance and exit were filmed in Turin, the length of sewer used was a new pipe system being installed in Coventry in the Midlands.

The famous ending, dreamed up by a Paramount executive in Hollywood, hated by director Peter Collinson and star Caine, and assigned to a Second Unit, was filmed above a reservoir at Ceresole Reale, about 40 miles northwest of Turin.

The Italian Job location: Planning revenge: The Argyle, now the Sunset Tower Hotel, Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood

Thereís only a tenuous link between this film and the 2003 version, directed by F Gary Gray, with Mark Wahlberg, Ed Norton, Donald Sutherland and Charlize Theron: the Minis, and the fact that the opening robbery is, indeed, Italian.

This time around, the heist takes place in Venice and, yes, thatís the familiar Campo San Barnaba again (previously seen in David Leanís Summer Madness and Steven Spielbergís Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). The rest of the movie is filmed in Los Angeles

The rooftop, where Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) and the crew plan their revenge, is the Sunset Tower Hotel, 8358 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood.

This striking art deco tower has been a frequent film location. You can see it in the 1944 Philip Marlowe thriller Farewell My Lovely (aka Murder My Sweet), with crooner Dick Powell as Raymond Chandler's private eye; Robert Altman's The Player; Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty; Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner A.W.O.L.; and Kathryn Bigelow's futuristic Strange Days.

The Italian Job location: Steve’s mansion: North San Rafael Avenue, Pasadena

The mansion of villainous Steve (Ed Norton) is tucked away at 295 North San Rafael Avenue in Pasadena.