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The First Great Train Robbery (known in the United States as The Great Train Robbery) is a 1978 British heist comedy film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his 1975 novel The Great Train Robbery.The film stars Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.. The story is based on an actual event, the Great Gold Robbery which took place on 15 May 1855 ...
Feb 2, 1979 · The Great Train Robbery: Directed by Michael Crichton. With Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb. England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.
The Great Train Robbery. PG 1978 1h 51m History Drama. List. 77% Tomatometer 31 Reviews. 69% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) is a master thief of the Victorian Era who ...
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The Great Train Robbery. 1979 · 1 hr 51 min. PG. Action · Adventure · Crime · Drama. Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down star in this true-life action thriller, based on director/screenwriter Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, about a daring gold heist that shocked Victorian society.
Set in 1855 Victorian England, a group of petty thieves plan a scheme for the first hold-up of a moving train as they try to steal a shipment of gold bars intended as payroll for the British Army during the Crimean War. 839 IMDb 6.9 1 h 50 min 1979. X-Ray PG. Action · Adventure · Tense · Exciting. Free trial of MGM+, rent, or buy. Watch with ...
England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out. Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats ...
England has had its share of great train robbers, including the gang immortalized in Stanley Baker's "Robbery." But there was, we learn, only one Great Train Robbery, and that was the first one, in 1855. Until one Edward Pierce made off with a shipment of gold being sent to meet the British army's payroll in the Crimea, it was, quite simply, thought impossible to rob a moving train.
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. Written/directed by Michael Crichton and released in 1978/79, “The Great Train Robbery” was loosely based on the real-life Great Gold Robbery of 1855 that took place in England. Sean Connery plays the mastermind, Lesley-Anne Down ...
S1 E1 - A Robber's Tale. December 17, 2013. 1 h 27 min. 13+. Bruce Reynolds, leading a team of mid-level criminals and a corrupt solicitor, pulls off a major theft that, in its day, baffled and frustrated the police but thrilled the general public. This is the story of how one group of criminals became the most wanted men in Britain.
Great Train Robbery (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, In The Year 1855 Elaborate opening sequence narrated by star Sean Connery from director Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery, 1979, based on Crichton's own novel, also the last feature completed by famed cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth.
