The Great Train Robbery1979
The Great Train Robbery (1979)
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Critic Consensus: Laboriously paced and overly talky, The Great Train Robbery nevertheless pulls off a thrillingly staged finale anchored by winning performances from Donald Sutherland and Sean Connery.
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Cast
as Edward Pierce
as Miriam
as Agar
as Edgar Trent
as Henry Fowler
as Insp. Sharp
as Burgess
as Clean Willy
as Emily Trent
as Elizabeth Trent
as Barlow
as McPherson
as Maggie
as Insp. Harranby
as Station Dispatcher
as Mr. Chubb
as Judge
as Capt. Jimmy
as Putnam
as Burke
as Woman on Platform
as Trent's Butler
as Rail Guard
as Hangman
as Workman in Chubb's Workshop
as Emma Barnes
as Boy Thief
as Chaplain
as Prosecutor
as Ratting Assistant
as Woman on Strand
as First Pickpocket
as Second Pickpocket
as Second Pickpocket
as Third Pickpocket
as Urchin on Strand
as Connaught
as Club Member
as Lewis
Critic Reviews for The Great Train Robbery
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Crichton is after a giggly quality as if it's being told as a pub yarn, soaked in exaggeration and acute trickery to defeat impossible hurdles, while never far from redoubtable moral lesson.
Crichton's films drag in dialog bouts, but triumph when action takes over.
The characters stay largely undeveloped, while -- despite superficially peculiar features -- the robbery is stripped of the ingenious exposition of the novel.
he climactic heist of the gold, with Mr. Connery climbing atop the moving railroad cars, ducking under bridges just before a possible decapitation, is marvelous action footage that manages to be very funny as it takes your breath away.
Imbued with the spirit of the '60s and '70s counterculture.
Connery is one of the best light comedians in the movies, and has been ever since those long-ago days when he was James Bond.
Audience Reviews for The Great Train Robbery
Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland star in this adventure/heist bit, spiced with witty dialogue and lively action scenes. Michael Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame, helms this, one of his earlier forays, and does quite well. Worthy of your time.
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Oh, so boring... Sure there's a good cast, but they're not even doing anything exciting anyway.
Super Reviewer
Not the most intriguiging of robbery/hiest movies, but clever all the same. It plodded along slowly but at an entertaining pace, interesting to see a robbery/hiest for it's the period it covered and with a little humour injected in to it and a likeable performance by Sean Connery, it all turned into a watchable kind of film.
Super Reviewer
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