Story Line
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
“Never have so few taken so much from so many.”
Top Cast
Sean Connery
Edward Pierce
Donald Sutherland
Robert Agar
Lesley-Anne Down
Miriam
Peter Butterworth
Putnam
Michael Elphick
Burgess
Alan Webb
Edgar Trent
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Rating
6.7/ 10
Release Date
1978-12-14
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
ThrillerAdventureDramaCrime
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User Reviews (3)
Wuchak
6/10
•6/18/2020_**Robbing a train of a shipment of gold in Victorian England**_
Written/directed by Michael Crichton and released in 1978/79, “The Great Train Robbery” was loosely based on the real-life Great Gold Robbery of 1855 that took place in England. Sean...
JPV852
8/10
•6/13/2023Seen this once before many years ago but decided to check out the new Blu-ray from Kino Lorber. A solid heist-thriller though what struck me was these thieves were stealing gold meant for British soldiers, so not exactly stealing from some corporatio...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•6/2/2024I think it's Jerry Goldsmith's opening theme that gives a clue that we're in for some fun antics on the railways! That's confirmed when Michael Elphick chucks some would-be robber from the speeding carriage down an embankment where he lands at the fe...