Movie question: The Italian job

[Rory57]

In the original 1969 'Italian job" movie there is a scene at an airport (Turin?) where the gold is removed from a "freighter" by lowering it from what looks like a bomb-bay.
It is a four engine (radial piston engines) type with unusual cockpit glazing.
Anyone out there can tell me what it is please, and the Airline?

Did it really have a bomb-bay type arrangement for cargo or was that just a device for the movie?

[Kieron Kirk]

C-74 Globemaster 1.

Try Google/Wikipedia.

Aeronaves de Panama I think.

Ciarain.

[India Four Two]

C-74 Globemaster

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/261875-aircraft-type-first-italian-job-film.html

[India Four Two]

KK - Snap! ;)

[Rory57]

Thanks all. I suppose I might have known this had been covered before. All the answers are at
Goleta Air and Space Museum: Douglas C-74 Globemaster (http://www.air-and-space.com/Douglas%20C-74.htm)
Was the "freight loading elevator" unique to the C74? It was certainly a gift to the movie-maker as a dramatic means to unload gold.

[spanish no fly]

No, some, if not all the C97 range had them. Not sure about the "K" range though.
SNF