Storyline
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
Directors
Cast
Donald Sutherland, Sean Connery, Brian Glover, André Morell, Lesley-Anne Down, James Cossins, Noel Johnson, Patrick Barr, Michael Elphick, Alan Webb, Janine Duvitski, Brian de Salvo, Peter Butterworth, Malcolm Terris, Pamela Salem, Robert Lang, Wayne Sleep, Gabrielle Lloyd, John Bett, Hubert Rees, Donald Churchill, Joe Cahill, Cecil Nash
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Reviews
90
Mr. Crichton's previous films as a director — "Westworld" and "Coma" — are skillful and, each in its own way, entertaining, but they give no hint of the amplitude he displays in this visually dazzling period piece. With Sean Connery as the gang's elegant leader, the sort of mastermind who denies his body nothing, Lesley-Anne Down as his magnificent moll, and Donald Sutherland as his locksmith —"the best screwsman in England" — The Great Train Robbery is classy entertainment of the sort I associate exclusively with movies.
80
A splendidly detailed and rousing caper movie.
75
Other pleasures: The wicked trick used to smuggle Connery into the locked car with the gold; the chase scene on top of the train; and, of course, the exquisite presence of Down, who has a bedroom scene with Connery that makes James Bond look curiously like Sherlock Holmes.
75
An entertaining thriller that stumbles occasionally on overlong dialogue sequences.
70
Crichton’s films drag in dialog bouts, but triumph when action takes over.
