The Great Train Robbery

Buy This Item The Great Train Robbery by MGM (Video & DVD)  Available from Amazon  $12.99  on 8-27-2008     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's a "spine-tingling and suavely performed" adventure (The Hollywood Reporter) based on history's first train robbery. Filmed by Academy AwardÂ(r)-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. *1972: Cabaret; 1980: Tess Reader Reviews 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.

The Great Train Robbery Available from Amazon Price: $12.99 Updated on 8-27-2008.

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