The First Great Train Robbery
Never have so few taken so much from so many.
Overview
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
- Budget
- $6,000,000
- Production
- United Artists, Starling Films
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Cast
Sean Connery
Edward Pierce
Donald Sutherland
Robert Agar
Lesley-Anne Down
Miriam
Peter Butterworth
Putnam
Michael Elphick
Burgess
Alan Webb
Edgar Trent
Robert Lang
Sharp
Malcolm Terris
Fowler
Wayne Sleep
Clean Willy
Gabrielle Lloyd
Elizabeth Trent
Pamela Salem
Emily Trent
James Cossins
Harranby
John Bett
McPherson
Peter Benson
Station Despatcher
Janine Duvitski
Maggie
Brian de Salvo
Trent's Butler
André Morell
Judge
Donald Churchill
Prosecutor
Brian Glover
Captain Jimmy
Patrick Barr
Burke
Crew
- Director
- Michael Crichton
- Writers
- Michael Crichton
- Producers
- John Foreman,Dino De Laurentiis
- Cinematography
- Geoffrey Unsworth
- Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
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Wuchak
June 18, 2020
_**Robbing a train of a shipment of gold in Victorian England**_ 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 his girlfriend and Donald Sutherland a safecracker with whom they team-up. I generally don’t like caper films because the protagonists are criminals, but Crichton wisely makes the characters played b…
JPV852
June 13, 2023
Seen this once before many years ago but decided to check out the new Blu-ray from Kino Lorber. A solid heist-thriller though what struck me was these thieves were stealing gold meant for British soldiers, so not exactly stealing from some corporation, and our lead played by Sean Connery had no issue murdering a guy. Even so, still found it entertaining and some suspense-filled scenes, among them a great sequence with Connery on top of a moving train. **3.75/5**
CinemaSerf
June 2, 2024
I think it's Jerry Goldsmith's opening theme that gives a clue that we're in for some fun antics on the railways! That's confirmed when Michael Elphick chucks some would-be robber from the speeding carriage down an embankment where he lands at the feet of "Pierce" (Sean Connery). This bowler hatted gent wouldn't have been out of place in the Reform Club at the start of "Around the World in Eighty Days", so is a natural at another gentleman's club where the manager of a bank is bragging about the…