"THE ITALIAN JOB" CONUNDRUM SOLVED! | Iconic film The Italian Job ending solved

In the Iconic British film The Italian Job, the robbers' coach almost drives off a cliff, ending up balanced precariously on the edge, with the gang at one end and their gold at the other.

The Royal Society of Chemistry asked for ideas to get the gold off the coach before it tips over. John Godwin from Surrey came up with the winning idea, which involves draining fuel from the vehicle.

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[mentalist555]

The coach is just about to tip over,and needs all the men to move upfront immediately to give them any chance of stabillising the downward forces.If the man close to the gold picked up a gold bar his own weight would have momentarily increased,and that may have caused a sudden weight imbalance in an area just enough to generate a further down force momentum,so their first instincts were spot on:stabilise weight imbalance,that buys you time to work out a solution,moving gold first is very risky!

[MrFaulconbridge]

when the bus first goes half over the cliff, there all lying downa nd one of them is close to the gold, he should of immediatly just started passing that gold down to the front. but instead they all moved to the front leaving the gold behind!

[Kneal2005]

Has anyone commenting seen this film as he moves closer the bus tips more and more and the gold slides, the original idea/solution as Michael Kane suggested/hinted in the clip, that was cut off imho. was to drain the petrol from the bus and hence lighten the load at the rear then move the gold one by one or (by taking all jump suits off make a noose to pull the gold:).) The 'scientific' theory that won just elaborated and vastly improved survival chances of all members of the job.

[soundappeal100]

@mentalist555 We did a project on this dilemma at college,duplicating all the known facts from the movie,and moving the gold first before would have almost certainly resulted in the coach toppling over,for the sound reasons you point out,nothing to do with fancy leader problem solver or lack of imagination,this is film drama not reality,so dramatic license is involved,it's entertainment,but we prooved scientifically you dont move gold first,and all of us thought you could,but we were wrong.

[333augusto]

@mentalist555,your analysis is spot on,those who think they should have passed the gold blocks upfront one by one conveniently forget how close to toppling over the edge they were,they had to act fast to equalise downward drag,there was no time to move gold initially,they had to stabilise the weight problem as you point out with great urgency,but others always know best,dont they!

[bWWd0]

@islanumblar you dont need it, its first tjhing that comes to mind to start moving this gold one by one instead of playing fancy leader problem solver.I never thought it was some kind of mystery how this ended, are oldtimers really so dumb and without imagination ? Its not even imagination is instinct to move the gold immediately

[flameo4563]

thanks a lot 

[9teen8e5]

i wolud have just let it drop and get the gold at the bottem i hardly think they care about scratched gold ha it would have been melted down anyway.

[9teen8e5]

im glad they never made a sequal to this story would have ruined it. leave it there its a classic. i hate the fact that they called the latest films of the same tiltle as they did, its an insult.

[EvertonFC95]

@MrFaulconbridge thats what i thought why doesnt he just grab one block at a time

[Lewisrule]

I'm glad there was no Sequel as it keeps this one a classic. Plus sequels are never as good as the first films anyways.