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The Great Train Robbery
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by MGM (Video & DVD)
Sales Rank: 10333
Price: $9.99
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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
Viewer Reviews
Based on actual fact and the novel by Michael Crichton (who also directed it), this a very tense and humorous adventure-thriller set in Victorian times during the Crimean War.
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down form a fantastic trio of robbers, train robbers that is, with style and panache.
Through a lot of planning, plotting and training, we are immersed in this amazing adventure and introduced in the underground world of Victorian crime life.
The entire subject is treated with a good dose of British humor and outmost taste and respect for historic detail.
The DVD sports a very good image transfer and the 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack (English track only, French is in Mono) is well balanced, although the music (by Jerry Goldsmith), which is masterfully rendered, sometimes blasts off and tends to cover some of the more subtler portions of dialogue (but this only happens a couple of times, so nothing to really worry about).
The entire movie is as fresh and entertaining as the first time it appeared in movie theaters.
I can highly recommend it.
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