The Great Train Robbery [Blu-ray]

Director: Michael Crichton Michael Crichton

Overview

This film is a dramatization of the famous first holdup of a moving train in 1855 England. The conspirators in this undertaking are Edward Pierce, Agar, and Clean Willy. The scheme involves stealing a shipment of gold intended to be used in the Army payroll in the Crimean War.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/13/2023
UPC:	0738329263041
Original Release:	1979
Rating:	PG
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:50:00
Sales rank:	12,250

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sean Connery	Edward Pierce
Lesley-Anne Down	Miriam
Donald Sutherland	Agar
Alan Webb	Edgar Trent
Malcolm Terris	Henry Fowler
Robert Lang	Inspector Sharp
Michael Elphick	Burgess
Wayne Sleep	Clean Willy
Pamela Salem	Emily Trent
Gabrielle Lloyd	Elizabeth Trent
George Downing	Barlow
John Bett	McPherson
Janine Duvitski	Maggie
James Cossins	Inspector Harranby
Peter Benson	Station Dispatcher
Clive Swift	Mr. Chubb
Brian Glover	Captain Jimmy
Peter Butterworth	Putnam
Patrick Barr	Burke
Agnes Bernelle	Woman on Platform
Brian de Salvo	Actor
Joe Cahill	Rail Guard
Michael Muldoon	Actor
Derry Power	Actor
Susan Hallinan	Actor
John Dunne	Actor
Cecil Nash	Actor
Donald Churchill	Prosecutor
Oliver Smith	Ratting Assistant
Jenny Till	Woman on Stand
John Altman	Actor
Paul Kember	Actor
Geoff Ferris	Actor
Craig Stokes	Actor
Noel Johnson	Connaught
Donald Hewlett	Actor
Hubert Rees	Lewis
André Morell	Judge
Frank McDonald	P.C. London Bridge Station
Brooke Adams	Actor
Paul Kernber	Second Pickpocket
Jerry Goldsmith	Composer

Technical Credits

Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton	Director,Screenwriter
Dino De Laurentiis	Executive Producer,Producer
John Foreman	Producer
Derek Ball	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Chris Barnes	Sound Effects
Gerry Humphreys	Sound Effects
Terry Poulton	Sound Effects
John C. Foreman	Producer
Liam Saurin	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

A nineteenth-century version of The Sting…. Crichton fascinates us.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“A work of intelligence and craftsmanship…. Written with grace and wit.” —Los Angeles Times

“One of the great storytellers of our age.... The best Michael Crichton novels are ... edifying reads, whose gripping plots contain real ideas.” —Newsday

“Crichton is a master at blending edge-of-the-chair adventure and a scientific seminar, educating his readers as he entertains them.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“[Crichton] makes the unbelievable believable.” —Washington Post

“[Crichton’s] stories are always page-turners of the highest order.” —The Denver Post

From the Publisher

One of the finest of contemporary pop novelists here presents a suspenseful and fascinating account of a true-life Victorian caper, far richer and more absorbing than the excellent film version of 1979. Simon Prebble plays less for drama than for clarity and euphony. His measured tones give us only a hint of character and ignore the author's expert manipulation of tension. Yet there is not a false or ugly note anywhere. Indeed, through some subtle actor's magic, he simultaneously puts himself into the background and the story into the foreground. Thus, though sounding unprepossessing and remote, he grips the listener and holds him fascinated until the last word of the last chapter. Y.R. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award.p © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

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