Advantages: Great plot, breath-taking situations, very entertaining Disadvantages: no extras
...GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (DVD)---------------------------
The First Great Train Robbery is a story by the late Michael Crichton who wrote it first as a novel and then adapted and directed it for the big screen, loosely based on real history.
-- PLOT
Edgar Pierce (Connery) is a gentleman and a thief, he can move with nonchalance between the high society and the slums of London, perfectly knowing how to deal with people of both. After hearing at a high ... ...ingots being moved on the London and Folkestone passenger train, Edgar Pierce cannot stop thinking about the gold!
In 1855 TNT hadn't been invented yet and all the "jobs" which involved a safe were based on making sets of duplicate keys from wax impressions for the locks. Inevitable is the need of a skilled screwsman. Agar (Sutherland) becomes Pierce's accomplice along with other picturesque character of a Victorian era.
The robbery takes over ...
EVIT 12.11.2008 (13.11.2008)
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Advantages: Fine performance from connery Disadvantages: Connery plays the role very much with a straight bat, perhaps a little too pompous & stiff but entertaining all the same
...Victorian England.
Connery plays the role very much with a straight bat, perhaps a little too pompous & stiff but entertaining all the same.
However, he is ably supported by fellow criminals Donald Sutherland (with a rather thick & unforgiving Cockney accent) and a rather angelic performance from Leley-Anne Down as Connery's love interest.
Coupled with a some outstanding cinematography by Geff Unsworth, showing panoramic views of the English countryside, ... ...been better, although I feel the film is perhaps 10 or 15 minutes overlong. But he never lets the pace flounder, and neither does he let the Connery-Down love interest suffocate or distract from the overall plot.
However, the characterisation for the main leads is a bit shallow & clumbsy. Connery is very much at home as Edward Pierce, the well respect city gent & playboy. In essence, not all that different from his James Bond character, although ...
tommyb123 04.11.2005
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