SoTrumpBelieve Must See Movie...

GazerRise Fantastic!

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan watch every Sean Connery movie in order, I come to 1979 yeah he released three movies, The first of which was The First Great Train Robbery. Connery's last good movie of the 1970's, and last great performance of the decade. Possibly a bit ahead of its time The First Great Train Robbery is an enjoyable period heist movie. Since robbers did not crack safes in those days. Because dynamite and combination locks had not yet been invented, they could only open the saw with keys. The stealing of the four keys to the two safes without their owners knowing it was great fun.Connery was a suave, gentleman criminal, Donald Sutherland was his partner whilst Lesley Ann Down was his mistress and the annoying Wayne Sleep had a small role.The First Great Yrain Robbery has witty innuendo and some great lines. I always enjoyed this oneJudge: "Why did you commit this scandalous and dastardly crime?" Man In Dock: "I wanted the money."It is superbly delivered.It's also worth noting that Connery clearly did all of his own stunts. Including running across the top of a moving train, going at 55 mph, ducking the bridges as he went. The First Great Train Robbery grossed a disappointing $13 million at the domestic box office. His next two movies this in 1979 didn't fare any better.

kenjha Before they can rob a safe on a train, thieves must obtain four independent keys kept by three people. The schemes devised to obtain the keys are laughably simplistic, with the plan to steal the final two keys (inexplicably kept in one place) ridiculously drawn out. Attempts at humor fall flat, and the film lacks the dramatic tension necessary for a good heist movie. Crichton not only adapts his own novel, but also directs. Based on the lame evidence presented here, he's not a competent writer or director. Connery and Sutherland are not called upon to flex their acting muscles while Down doesn't appear to have any such muscles. At least the sets and costumes are nice.

Kieran Green 'The First Great Train Robbery' or as it's known stateside 'The Great Train Robbery' is nothing short of excellent. From the novel written and directed by the late Michael Chricton, i can't emphasis enough why i love this film, it's a treasure! why? The excellent Casting Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland who make an excellent double act, one wonders if Gould and Sutherland were originally approached? Lesley Anne Down who is ravishing as a whore with the inevitable heart of gold. The Score by Jerry Goldsmith is amazing! it is something of which i occasionally listen to whilst travelling by Train!The film features some of the final Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth which the film is dedicated to. after nearly thirty five years later 'The First Great Train Robbery' remains untouchable it is not dated in the slightest, it's a shame that they don't make em' like they used to.

classicalsteve In the beginning there were four keys. And the keys were used to lock two giant safes. There was gold locked in the two safes, and it was good. And the giant safes were aboard a British train. The train was destined for Eastern Europe to fund the British forces fighting the Crimean War. Edward Pierce stated the gold was worth £25,000 and aroused the criminal element. But there had never been a robbery from a moving train before. And Edward Pierce said "All anyone ever thinks about is money." And it was good.Sean Connery plays Edward Pierce, a comely yet conniving thief of thieves, who decides for his next project to lift the Crimean Gold from a train bound for Eastern Europe. The character Edward Pierce is loosely based on real-life thief William Pierce who enacted one of the greatest train heists in the 1850's. The very opening of the movie is Connery's voice-over explaining the gold, the safes, and the whereabouts of the four keys. Immediately, we understand that his initial goal is to acquire the keys to steal the gold.He solicits the help of fellow pick-pocket and lock-smith ("the best screws-man in England) Edward Agar (also a real-life figure involved in the 1855 heist) played by Donald Sutherland, and the beautiful Leslie-Anne Down as Miriam. The first half of the film is Connery and Sutherland investigating the location of each key, its owner, and a possible weakness in the keys' owner. Their first target is Mr Edgar Trent, head of the bank entrusted with the dispatch of the gold. Connery discovers Trent's routine to discover a weakness. We see an imagined scene in which Trent rejects the solicitations of a young woman to which Connery remarks in voice-over: "No respectable man is that respectable!" This first segment demonstrates how the film is organized, through the investigation and acquisition of each key which is duplicated care of Sutherland. The last act is the actual heist. Blessed are they that experience this pure entertainment from beginning to end. Of course the bad guys are all colorful characters with not only shrewdness but wit to match, while the upright members of society who hold the keys to the gold are painted as bland and stodgy bores. Every scene is replete with humor and sarcasm, and Sutherland and Connery make an unlikely pair of complementary underworlds. And this heist must shortly come to pass. Amen.