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The Great Train Robbery
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780792839064
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792839064
Item Dimensions: 15
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: D907149D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 1998
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: February 02, 1979
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Editorial Review:
Best-selling novelist Michael Crichton had already directed Westworld and Coma when he tackled the ambitious production of The Great Train Robbery in 1978. Adapting 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.
A lively, humorous caper film of the first order, The Great Train Robbery also 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. 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 Great Train Robbbery remains an entertaining study of crime in a less hectic age, allowing Crichton to emphasize ingenuity over special effects. --Jeff Shannon
All aboard for runaway action and suspense in this riveting masterpiece from writer/director Michael Crichton! Starring Sean Connery Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down it is a "spine-tingling and suavely performed" adventure (The Hollywood Reporter) based on historys first train robbery. Filmed by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth this "ingenious" (Variety) and "wonderful" (Gene Shalit) crime caper delivers mile-a-minute thrills and breathtaking excitement. Connery is Edward Pierce a master thief who conceives a brilliant plan to steal a fortune in gold bars from a railroad payroll car. But to pull off the most daring heist in history Pierce must join forces with a safecracker (Sutherland) and his own beautiful girlfriend (Down) in a series of intricately-plotted thefts that will test all of their nerve camaraderie and larcenous skill.Starring: Sean Connery Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne DownDirector: Michael CrichtonProduced by John Foreman; written by Michael Crichton; Running time of 111 minutes; closed captioned.Copyright: 1979 United ArtistsSystem Requirements:Widescreen 1.85 aspect ratio Languages: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround) and French (mono) Subtitles: English French and Spanish Theatrical trailer Audio commentary by Michael Crichton Included Trivia Booklet Interactive Menus Video Format: Widescreen (no AR specified) English: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround French: Dolby Digital Mono Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 027616714923
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Highly recommended for two hours plus of entertainment
I just read the book by Michael Crichton, and enjoyed it very much. I purchased the move to see if it was as good as the book. Yes it is!. Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland are great together. The move was filmed in 1978, and the dual troublemakers try to pull off the biggest heist in British history. The movie provides non-stop tension, conspiracy, and action. Highly recommended for two hours plus of entertainment.
Rating: - Great period movie
An excellent movie about a train robbery in the 1890s with impressive attention to period detail. There's never been a train robbery movie that has been this exciting with a very intricate plot. It's a movie you watch from beginning to end with no breaks. Best of the best for all the actors.
Rating:  - A Costume Crime Story
The film tells how £25,000 in gold was shipped to pay British troops during the Crimean War in 1855. One man is found on the train, there is a fight, and he is thrown off. One "sharp business man" is very interested in these gold shipments. (Gold is untraceable.) Edward Pierce plans to steal the gold shipment and makes meticulous plans to steal and copy the four keys to the safe. This film shows the "ratting" sport, and people riding horses. It shows how each key is found and copied by different ... Read More
Rating: - Reasonably Entertaining
In 1855, England was near the height of its power. Industrialization had transformed the country, its empire stretched across most of the world, and high-speed rail was an established fact of life. In the midst of this Victorian order, Edward Pierce conceived and executed perhaps the most daring robbery up to that point in time. Specifically, he and his confederates set out to steal 25,000 pounds in gold bullion from a moving train protected by every form of security available in that age.
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Rating: - Almost as good as the book!
I read Michael Crichton's book a few years ago, and I loved it, but I did not see the movie version until recently. Then I read Crichton's book "Travels," which has a chapter on the filming of the movie, which he directed. With my interest now piqued, I got the movie CD and enjoyed it very much, especially after reading Crichton's account of the problems during filming. Filmed in 1978, this is Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland at their finest, playing two Victorian scalawags trying to pull off the ... Read More
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