The First Great Train Robbery [1979 film]

by Michael Crichton (Director)

Other authors: Sean Connery (Actor), Lesley-Anne Down (Actress), George Downing (Actor), Robert Lang (Actor), Donald Sutherland (Actor) — 3 more, Malcolm Terris (Actor), Geoffrey Unsworth (Cinematographer), Alan Webb (Actor)

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A recreation of the dramatic 19th century train robbery masterminded by Edward Pierce. He was the first man in history to rob a moving train, and he and his accomplices got away with a fortune in gold.

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(1975)(audio)Historical novel based on robbery in England in 1855. Good story that Crighton mucks up with too much detail and too much digression into seemingly unrelated stories. He also tends to use the colloquialisms of the English to the point of the reader not knowing what is going on because you cannot understand what is being talked about.

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A delightful caper movie. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Crichton, Michael	Director	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Connery, Sean	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Down, Lesley-Anne	Actress	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Downing, George	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lang, Robert	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sutherland, Donald	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Terris, Malcolm	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Unsworth, Geoffrey	Cinematographer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Webb, Alan	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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The Great Train Robbery: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith

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The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

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The First Great Train Robbery [1979 film]

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The Great Train Robbery

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1979-02-02 (USA)

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The Great Train Robbery (1978 | IMDb)

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This is the 1978 film The First Great Train Robbery (also known as The Great Train Robbery), directed by Michael Crichton and starring Sean Connery. Please do not combine with the screenplay (which was written by Michael Crichton), or the book on which it was based (which was *also* written by Michael Crichton).

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A recreation of the dramatic 19th century train robbery masterminded by Edward Pierce. He was the first man in history to rob a moving train, and he and his accomplices got away with a fortune in gold.

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