A friend of mine claims that at the end of this movie Alfie gets into a car, drives off and then crashes it and dies. I thought the end was Alfie walking off with the stray dog. Did I miss the end somehow, or is my friend mad? Many thanks for any replies.
shareAlso to add, Mr.Caine was unable to drive at the time of filming of this and other movies in the 60's and parts of the 70's, I think. But, I know he was un able to drive. So it's imposeasble for him to drive into something and die, unless they had a fill-in person to do the job which I highly think they would do for one of the greatest actors of our time. I think that it's very rare for one of his charaters to die in film of his anyways.
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What do you mean he couldn't drive? He didn't have his license or what? If thats the case then let me say that there are plenty of actors who don't have their license but still drive in movies. For instance I think Shia LeBeouf didn't have his license in "Battle of Shaker heights" nor could he drive a stick but learned for the movie.
Or was their a different reason that he counldn't drive? Please let me know. I am curious.
Omegajedi, Caine didn't have a driving licence. It's not particularly uncommon in Britain for men/women not to have a driving licence (and it was even more common during the 1960s), especially someone from a working-class background like Caine (and myself). In the UK, the cost of learning to drive is prohibitively expensive, and until recently the only people who could learn to drive whilst young (say, in their late teens or twenties) were people from middle-class backgrounds whose families could afford to help them pay for driving lessons. Caine would not have had that support (as my father didn't, and as my grandparents didn't, and as I didn't). (I know the situation is a bit different in a country like the US, where learning to drive is, I believe, part of the school curriculum.)
However, over the past decade or so 'driving culture' in the UK has exploded considerably, and I would guess that in 2005, the majority of young people have driving licences by the time they reach twenty-five or so.
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That's interesting, I didn't know any of that. But I do think that it's not a good reason for him to not crash at the end of the movie; after all, his main job in the film is as a hire-out chauffeur!
shareI think your friend was pulling your leg =P
shareAbsolutely, Michael Caine did not have a license, and therefore could not drive. Which is why he drives throughout most of the movie.
The film in question's title escapes me -- it's an Alec Guiness film -- from the fifties, not 1966 -- in which his character, who has been contemplating suicide throughout, decides life is worth living after all. Then he gets into a sports car, drives off, and is accidentally killed in a crash. It really did happen, only to a completely different actor, in a totally different fim, ten years or more earlier.
I believe the Alec Guiness movie you are talking about is " Last Holiday " from 1950
shareIsn't that how BUtterfield 8 ends? Maybe your friend was confusing them since BUtterfield 8 has some parallel themes.
shareMichael Caine had to get his license for Get Carter, made in 1971. There are several scenes where he had to be seen driving.
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1st, no your mates talking crap because that ending never happened
2nd, Caine through some films couldnt drive, he doesnt drive in 'the italian job' at all
About driver's licenses - my grandparents lived in Philadelphia and only one of them had a drivers license. My grandfather didn't own a car until he was aged in his late 60's.
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I should imagine in the 1960's that driving a car was looked on as a posh pursuit. I wish they would introduce driving lessons over here as part of the school curriculum but I guess the driving schools would be up in arms over it as they make good money from it.
shareYour friend wasn't as wrong as replies suggest. In the Bill Naughton book sequel 'Alfie Darling', which is nothing like the awful film sequel, Alfie does indeed kill himself in a car crash. Just as he was prepairing to settle down with a woman.
shareThat's right it was from the awful follow up Alfie Darling but it isn't Alfie that dies it's his girlfriend that dies in a plane crash at the end.
Avoid the film at all costs, it's terrible and has a totally miscast Alan Price (a Geordie singer!) in the lead role.
I wrote a user review of it on IMDb and got some stick for voicing my opinions...
Hi,
Your friend might have been thinking of an early Caine movie called Blind Spot (1958). That film ends with Caine's character crashing a car - although he's trying to get away from the police, I think.