Italian Job is Brit film gold

THE Italian Job has been named the best British film and its star Michael Caine has topped an actors’ list.

The 1969 caper about crooks trying to rob gold bullion in Minis was No1 in a survey of 2,000 Brits.

Dame Judi Dench led female actors, and Alfred Hitchcock was top director, Vue Entertainment found. TOP 10 BRITISH FILMS: 1 The Italian Job; 2 The Full Monty; 3 Zulu; 4 Love, Actually; 5 Trainspotting; 6 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; 7 Four Weddings and a Funeral; 8 The Bridge on the River Kwai; 9 Monty Python’s Life of Brian; 10 Billy Elliot.