Best-selling novelist Michael Crichton had already
directed Westworld and Coma when he tackled the
ambitious production of The Great Train Robbery in
1978. Adapting his own novel (which was inspired
by the facts of the first known train robbery),
Crichton sets this attractive, highly enjoyable
film in London in 1855, where Edward Pierce (Sean
Connery) and Agar (Donald Sutherland) plot to
steal £25,000 in gold that is being transported by
train to pay British troops in the Crimean War.
Lesley-Anne Down plays Miriam, Pierce's
sophisticated paramour and the third partner in
the scheme; while Pierce and Agar make copies of
four keys for the train's closely guarded safes,
she uses her feminine wiles to distract a variety
of officials and businessmen with connections to
the gold.
| Format size: | Widescreen |
| Languages: | English, French |
| Runtime: | 111 min. |
| Number of discs: | 1 |
| Subtitles: | English, Spanish, French |
