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- 1. A Robber's Tale Dec 18, 2013
- How a group of mid-level criminals hijacked the Bank Holiday mail train from Euston to Glasgow.
- 2. A Copper's Tale Dec 19, 2013
- The film is based on the true story of the police investigation into the train robbery.
With Robert Glenister, Jack Roth, Luke Evans, Paul Anderson. A two-part drama which portrays The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963, firstly from the point of view of the robbers and then from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.
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- 2013-12-18
- Biography, Crime, Drama
- 90
- A Robber’S Tale
- A Copper’s Tale
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Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country’s history. A train has been hijacked and robbed, 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The country is stunned: who could be behind it? How did they pull off such an audacious raid? This is the true story of the key protagonists, led by Bruce Reynolds, and their role in the crime ...
8 August 1963. Early morning, a slumbering police force awakes to news of a robbery. But the extent of the robbery - £2.6 million (the equivalent of over £40 million today) - will only become evident over the next few days. At Buckinghamshire CID, there is a frantic scramble down to the crime scene, where 65 policemen are searching for the lost eng...
Aug 8, 2023 · The Great Train Robbery has been dramatised several times - Phil Collins played gang member Bruce Edwards in the 1988 movie Buster, while the BBC adapted the tale in 2013 with a two-part...
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Aug 8, 2013 · The Great Train Robbery: How it happened. Just after 3am on 8 August, 1963 the night mail train from Glasgow Central to London Euston was stopped in Buckinghamshire by a gang of thieves.
Dec 18, 2013 · A train has been hijacked and robbed, 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The country is stunned: who could be behind it? How did they pull off such an audacious raid? This is the true...
May 2, 2013 · LONDON – Oscar winner Jim Broadbent has signed on to star in the second installment of screenwriter Chris Chibnall‘s two-part TV movie The Great Train Robbery for BBC One.
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