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The First Great Train Robbery [DVD] [1978]

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  • Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris
  • Directors: Michael Crichton
  • Writers: Michael Crichton
  • Producers: John Foreman
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Mar 2001
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000059L8L
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,318 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A lively, humorous caper film of the first order, The First Great Train Robbery is Michael Crichton's ambitious adaptation of his own novel, which was inspired by the facts of the first known train robbery. Crichton sets this attractive, highly enjoyable film in London in 1855, where Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) and Agar (Donald Sutherland) plot to steal £25,000 in gold that is being transported by train to pay British troops in the Crimean War. Lesley-Anne Down plays Miriam, Pierce's sophisticated paramour and the third partner in the scheme; while Pierce and Agar make copies of four keys for the train's closely guarded safes, she uses her feminine wiles to distract a variety of officials and businessmen with connections to the gold.

The film boasts a vividly authentic recreation of mid-Victorian England, all the more remarkable since the production was filmed primarily in Ireland on a budget of $6 million--a miraculously modest sum (even in 1978) for such a lavish-looking film. Credit is due to the splendid cinematography of Geoffrey Unsworth and Jerry Goldsmith's ebullient score, both of which enhance the film's look and feel. Although Crichton's directorial style seems somewhat detached and bloodless, he maintains a vivid respect for place and time, and his three leads are splendid in their charismatic roles. Meticulous attention to details of costuming and production design enhance the breezy fun of the heist, which climaxes with an exciting sequence on the rushing train, with Connery performing his own stunt work. While the later hit Mission: Impossible would take a similar sequence to its high-tech, high -velocity extreme, The First Great Train Robbbery remains an entertaining study of crime in a less hectic age, allowing Crichton to emphasise ingenuity over special effects. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com



Special Features

4:3 Full Frame
1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English\German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English\Mono French German Italian Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital Mono
Interactive Menu Screens And Chapter Selection
Original Theatrical Trailer
Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Italian\Norwegian\Spanish\Swedish
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Cool!, 5 Dec 2005
This film is brilliant! No other word for it....A previous reviewer said the 1855 great train robbery was a work of fiction by Michael Crichton - Not so! It really did happen, just google it and see. The film obviously misses some points and adds others, but overall it is a thrilling yarn. Connery and Sutherland in their prime. Go buy it!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars SENSATIONAL FILM, 27 April 2004
I came across this film on TV one sunday afternoon, and am SO glad I sattrough it. Absolutely fantastic. Its funny, very clever, the cast couldnot be any better at all - Sean Connery is as sexy as ever, DonaldSutherland is funny, and Lesley-Anne Down is ... um ... young! It is anace film that portrays the whole train robbery fiasco superbly, as one ofthe other reviewers has sed, with very little violence. I think it drawsthe audiences attention to actually how things were done rather thantrying to grip the imagination with bloodshed and bad language, yet it isstill packed with suspense.
I absolutely love this film and I recommend it to everyone who is willingto give something different ago. I was doubtful at first because the filmis older than me and on a subject I know relatively little about. But whenit came down to it, it made no difference at all.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars There WAS an actual real robbery in 1885, 5 Aug 2007
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To the reviewer 'nomad1888' who bizarrely claims that there was no great train robbery in 1885! Of course there was, It was very real and very famous. Why you never bothered to confirm this on the internet you obviously have access to, before putting foot in mouth, i have no idea.? Apart from a few minor differences especially at the end the film is historically quite accurate. Great performances all round, especially showing the painstaking detail that was gone into. The judge at the trial even took a liking to Edward Agar, stating that he wished that the man had put his obvious genius into honest endevour, as he would still have made a fortune in any business he went into.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The First Great Train Robbery DVD
Excellent. I cant count the number of times i have watched this film a classic.
Published 3 months ago by Mr. Clifton Quinn

5.0 out of 5 stars First Train Robbery
A good period drama on how to steal from a moving railway carriage. Set during the Crimea War it focus's on a small team of crooks who with a slight comical but serious unfolding... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. K. Willis

3.0 out of 5 stars Good story, but poor history
As a piece of fiction, this is a very good crime caper film, fit to stand alongside the Italian Job. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Junius

4.0 out of 5 stars Fares please!
A runaway action drama, loosely based on real events. Conceiving a daring plan to steal a fortune in gold from a payroll train, Sean Connery teams up with Donald Sutherland and... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Aquinas

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorites of all caper movies
Based on the book and directed by Michael Crichton, this enjoyable caper movie from 1979 brings together a fantastic cast in an authentic 19th century Victorian environment to... Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2006 by Darren Harrison

5.0 out of 5 stars Just a pedantic point...
The Amazon reviewer says that Crichton based his book and later this film on 'the facts of the first known train robbery.' In fact he made it all up. Read more
Published on 28 April 2005 by J. Wilson

5.0 out of 5 stars The First Great Train Robbery
YES YES YES!!!!!
This ones a gem really top notch it's got everything Sean Connery is as handsome as ever Donald Sutherland is quite hillarious in places ( look out for the... Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2005 by mick_tenko

5.0 out of 5 stars Clever and no violence
This film is a treat. It presents gentlemen robbers in the form of Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland in a film that relies on plot rather than violence to deliver its impact (an... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2002 by Alistair Duncan

5.0 out of 5 stars Cracking
The great train robbery has always been a great story. This film not only combines the grandness of the classic tale, but adds classic humour and class in to boot. Read more
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