Blow The Bloody Doors Off


I loved the following tribute to Sir Michael Caine - which appears in the latest edition of Private Eye.

POETRY CORNER

A Tribute
Lines on the 80th birthday
of Sir Michael Caine,
actor

So. Michael Caine
You are
Eighty

Not a lot of 
People know that

That was you
Catchphrase, even though
You never actually
Said it

Not a lot of 
people know that either

Bang!
Oi! You were only
Supposed to blow those
Bloody candles out

Happy birthday
Sir Michael

E.J Thribb
(Real name: Edwin Thribblewhite)

So here's a little clip of plain old Michael Caine (as he was then) in the famous 'blow the bloody doors off' scene - from the movie 'The Italian Job'

http://youtu.be/7_PX1cVuaVA 

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