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- The ‘Great Train Robbery’, which occurred 50 years ago on 8 August 1963, has been labelled the ‘crime of the century’. A gang of thieves held up the Glasgow to London Travelling Post Office train and stole £2.6 million in used bank notes (around £50 million in today’s money).
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The First Great Train Robbery (known in the United States as The Great Train Robbery) is a 1978 British heist comedy film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his 1975 novel The Great Train Robbery. The film stars Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.
Feb 2, 1979 · The First Great Train Robbery is a first rate, seldom seen, crime thriller with Sean Connery, Lesley Ann Downes (who impresses in corsets) and Donald Sutherland who execute an audacious train heist...in England 1855 (with a little help from Wayne Sleep).
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- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Michael Crichton
- 1979-02-02
Aug 20, 2011 · The First Great Train Robbery (1978) - Official movie trailer. (c) 1978 MGM/UA. Starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley Anne Down. Screenplay & Directed by Michael Crichton....
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- 122.5K
- studiotour
Aug 8, 2013 · Learn how a gang of criminals replaced gold bullion with lead shot on a London-Dover mail train and got away with £12,000. Discover how a woman's tip and a railway guard's confession exposed the plot and led to the arrest of the robbers.
Mar 26, 2023 · A stylish period thriller in which a gentleman crook and a master safe-cracker attempt the first moving train robbery - their target a British Army payroll on its way to the Crimean War.
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
Learn about the largest train heist in British history, which took place on Aug. 8, 1963. Find out how the gang planned, executed and escaped the robbery, and how the police investigated and caught them.
