The Italian job, the original film was much better CF.
Gigliola Cinquetti Non Ho L’Eta would have been even better than Matt Munro On Days Like These for the opening St Bernard scene.
The opening scene was cinematic history at its best, perfect camera angles on the mountains, great use of panning in, and as you rightly said a great choice of music.
I was reading an article about the Mafia in Southern Italy but they are called something else now, apparently they cannot get any new recruits to join the “firm”, nobody wants the job anymore, especially the younger people.
A few years ago the police discovered a labyrinth of complex tunnels beneath their houses in remote towns and villages to make good their escape if the spotters in the town saw a police raid about to happen.